Well…little change of plans.  Even though I’ve been feeling great, all the balancing against the motion of the ocean–not to mention all that up and down the companionway steps from the chart house every 15 minutes to stick my head out and take a look around in the night seems to have aggravated my hip flexors enough that I’m having some sharp pains as I walk (hobble!) around the boat.  I’m using my REI trekking stick to get around–and that’s sort of silly but I don’t want to make matters worse by over-doing it even more.  So, last evening, with an update to the weather files right before our planned exit from the anchorage, we realized that the weather window was still wide open and we could afford to take a little break and stay here at San Simeon for another 24 hours.  Thus, we’ll leave here this evening just prior to sunset and spend the night motoring up the Big Sur coastline.

It’s late morning and I’ve got my feet propped up, dosed myself with a good bit of Tylenol and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that my hip will go back to feeling good soon.  David is rummaging through his electrical parts (ever a project ongoing) to find what he needs to install a cute little 400 watt inverter adjacent our 1500 watt inverter.  It’s a whole ‘nuther story about how the 1500 watt inverter (18 months old and out of warranty) decided to fail the day before our trip started.  The 1500 watt one was great as it could power the air compressor, all tools save a big chop-saw David owns, and even power the washer or icemaker.  No more though.  I’ll be shopping around for a charger/inverter combo to replace it.  In the meanwhile, we have a tiny little 150 watt one that I use for the laptop via a cigarette lighter outlet in the chart house–but it can’t handle tools or anything much. Back to the story, as David rummages, I have to just take deep breaths and tell myself to stay put in the chart house and “relax” and keep my feet up rather than to get involved with putting things safely away.

Relax…