April 05-13, 2001 -- Boqueron

April 5-13, 2001 -- Boqueron First thing in the morning, we headed to Mayaguez to clear immigration along with Fortitude. It was easy. We showed them our passports, and they said, "OK, you can go now." Sheesh, talk about a waste of time! While there, we ran into Masade, Kokopelli and Pamela. We headed from there to the Mayaguez mall where we stopped for breakfast at Burger King. We then split up, to go looking for what we wanted. Mike and I headed for Sears, still looking for fans! We then moved out into the mall. We got side tracked at a pizza place where Mike had a slice of pizza. We then continued down the mall to the Taco Maker where Mike had an enchilada and I had a burrito. We went into Wal Mart for a few things, then on the way back Mike stopped at the donut shop for a chocolate covered donut! We met up with everyone outside of Sears. Where you guess it, Mike and I headed to KFC for lunch. We then wandered over to the grocery store to pick up a few essentials. We met up with everyone and we headed back to Boqueron. On Friday, we took our bad inverter in to be repaired. Later that day, Shaffer and Brown called to inform us that Heart wanted to replace our inverter, but one wouldn't ship until April 17. For the rest of the weekend, we wandered around town, checked out the shops there, and basically enjoyed being back in US waters! On Monday April 9, we shared a taxi into Cabo Rojo to drop off our VCR. It has developed a problem, apparently, with the tracking. It should be ready on Thursday. We headed from there to Radio Shack, then to Office Max and finally on to the grocery store to pick up a few more things. On Tuesday April 10, we received the first half of our mail package. This was the first time we have received mail since we left West Palm Beach! We made some other phone calls, then went back to the boat to work on the bright work. On Wednesday April 11, we received the second half of our mail package, and then headed back to the boat to review everything and do some more bright work. On Thursday April 12, while Sandra headed for the El Yunque rain forest, the only rain forest in the US, we went to pick up our VCR. After that we returned to the boat and enjoyed a quiet day. Sandra brought dinner home, Church's Fried chicken. On Friday April 13, since Sandra had the car we decided to try to find a grocery store. There wasn't anything open but fast food and the bars! We headed back to the boat and spent another quiet day.