An Update

Gilles is still working on the boat, sawing wood and getting paint on everything and asking me to get out of the way. I've read three books: "The Best American Travel Writing 2007" edited by Susan Orlean, "The Cure for Anything is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea" by Mary South, "Moral Disorder" by Margaret Atwood, and just started a fourth, T.C. Boyle's "The Women."

I'm anxious to get going. We're only a few miles from Satsuma where five year old Haleigh Cummings disappeared. Everyone seems on edge as the search continues and there is still no sign of her. It's becoming commonplace to see people handing out flyers, helicopters flying overhead, and fleets of police cars and television microwave trucks.