With so much time on our hands, we have decided to check into some new software and start a new blog site that will incorporate both the sailing website and our new website. Please log into  https://paradigmshiftva.com/  No longer will you have to use the “blogspot” or the SailBlogs addresses.  We have our own domain and you can bookmark it and find our latest adventures.

We have honored the quarantine and are about ready to break loose but once again we are at the mercy of the testing sites. Unfortunately (I am not sure I have mentioned this before) there are no home test kits to be found anywhere in the area. Heck even Amazon says it will not have any available until the end of the month. So we will head to the testing facility tomorrow and once again stand in line and wait. It has been a long eight days now and I wish I had something to show for it. Maybe the floors could have been cleaned and all the windows…….I did get some of the louvered doors in the main salon and galley cleaned. But to be honest I have been lazy. I have allowed whatever this Omicron thing is to have its way so that I can get over it quicker. I have a tendency to fight through a cold and as I told others, I would typically have gone to work with this. But I have rested, drank my water, pushed my vitamins and eaten my well balanced diet. Feeling much better today I am still nervo

Another post about logistics that need to be considered when traveling.  Yes…..the boys!  They are adorable and have such different personalities.  Jaxon is the cautious one while Cooper still believes the world is HIS oyster.  Cooper tends to bring Jaxon out of his shell a bit but there are days Jaxon would just like to be left alone.  They are quite the pair.   So when you travel with pets you need to check to see if there are any importation requirements for them. In the Bahamas you must apply for an importation permit.  Some days this is an easy process and others it is most stressful.  We have been going to the Bahamas for five years and of those five, one has been a cake walk.  You can send away for the permit yourself by sending a money order along with the application or you can use a service that does that for you.  I have done it myself four of our five years and for three of those years I had to resend it again.  So I paid double those years as the first ones were “lost”.