It's a small small world

Yesterday, while walking down the streets of Golfito, Costa Rica and roasting under a typically hot sun we suddenly heard someone yelling at us from a car on the opposite side of the road. As per usual, we did our best to ignore whoever was trying to abuse us, but had to stop when we heard our names!!

We turned and there hanging out the window of a Land Rover were Robin Jeffers and his wife Betsy!! No way, how could that be that we'd run into friends down here?? Robin is a friend that we've met on the West Coast sailing circuit. One of the most respected boat captains and delivery skippers around. He also has an uncanny way of getting hired to work on boats that end up winning our races.

Turns out Robin had just delivered a SC52 to Golfito to load on a dockwise ship heading for Australia. We had seen the dockwise ship leave as we entered port yesterday.

For those that think we've been rushing along (ourselves included), Robin left a month behind us and beat us by 2 days!!

We met later in the day at the marina that we were docked at and enjoyed catching up.

You never know who you'll see next,

- Jim and Deb

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