The Taco Traveler

Clearly, some of my loyal readers are very very very bored and have a keen interest in what sort of junk (and occasionally useful stuff) I'm loading onto this boat. Maybe it has something to do with today's cultural climate - people sure love lists (and who has time for my paragraphs, or long, overdrawn and occasionally completely unrelated parenthetical statements?). So in the interest of satisfying my readers, here's another list from today's Seattle excursion:
 
- 6 oil filters
- 6 (more) primary fuel filters (Racor, 10 micron)
- 1 dozen secondary fuel filters (2 micron)
- 6 bottles of wine (hey, there were too few before, so they rattled. Now they're packed in there tight and very secure).
- 1 8" fish filleting knife and sheath... heh... For AHI!
- Another couple of those amazing and magical magnet lights
- 5 gallon jerry jug for diesel fuel

Uhhhh... sure seemed like I paid for more than that. Maybe I was overcharged, but it was marine-grade stuff (except the wine).

Listening to Bright Eyes, drinking a glass of wine [Editor's note: the bottles are loose and rattly again. Must buy more tomorrow], and taking a break from all the stowing and packing and lashing. My delivery skipper (Captain Richard Bard, "Rich") has targetted a break in the weather starting sometime Wednesday night / Thursday morning. This (finally) well-prepared boat and the weather window is, of course, something I've been waiting a long time for, but is bittersweet as I've only recently been introduced to some features - restaurants I haven't been to, people I hadn't met - that make me feel like Seattle may have a bit more to offer, after all.

TT