Questions

We didn't travel far today - a whopping two miles south around the corner to Puerta Los Gatos. There is only one other boat in here so far. They're a Canadian couple from Victoria who visit their boat in Baja every year. There seems to be a lot of that. Folks pull their boat out of the water when it gets too hot or hurricanes become more likely, and fly home. The Canadians motored their dinghy over for a chat.

The virus that's been in the news was front and center in their minds, especially when they heard we're from Seattle. They filled us in on the impact on nursing homes in the Seattle area, but couldn't tell us much otherwise. There must be a lot going on in the world that we've been oblivious to. Maybe that's just as well. Maybe not.

On Quijote we talked about the virus and our special case of self imposed quarantine, a quarantine that will be broken periodically as we go ashore and as we are joined by new crew. We wondered what precautions we should take. We wondered if many countries will require airlines to turn away passengers that don't meet requirements for medical checks. Our agent tells us French Polynesia is requiring such a check within five days of crew flying in to meet us. We wondered what good it would do if the virus were contracted within that five days, or if the virus has already made its way throughout the global transport network, including French Polynesia. We agreed we had a lot of questions we wouldn't be able to answer for a while, perhaps mirroring discussions in homes around the world.

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