Antigua - Side Trip

To bring everyone up to speed: last week we received a call that my youngest brother Scott (who is on a study abroad program in Groningen, Netherlands) was admitted to the Groningen hospital in critical condition with a mystery illness. His condition was so bad that he was sedated and put on a ventilator and feeding tube. I flew out there from Antigua and have spent the last week with my family hoping Scott would get better. He finally woke up on Wednesday morning. He is still very ill and will be in the isolation unit for the next few weeks until they figure out what the problem was, but he is awake and they were able to take him off the ventilator. It has been a difficult week for me and my family, but we are just so thankful that he is alive and hope he will make a full, albeit slow, recovery.

So now I am back in Antigua. I was able to get 8 hours sleep and now we are heading out on an overnighter to St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands. We are preparing the boat this morning and plan to leave around noon. We should have good weather and be able to sail most of the way.