Hello All,

Spent the night on one of the island of in the Turks and Caicos, another one of those gems in the Caribbean. On arrival to at the airport we were greeted with a red carpet, whisked around on golf carts, promptly handed all the required forms and treated like royalty. After all of the hassles we had looking for official offices and filling out paperwork in the last 5 airports this was a very welcome reprieve. We only hit a couple little glitches when upon departing we found out that we were charged overtime fees for both customs and immigration because our stamp from them read 4:35pm and their offices close at 4:30. Also we were charged for 56 gallons of fuel which I found interesting since the plane only holds a maximum of 50. Once they found the correct bill they couldn´t credit my Mastercard because the lines were down (the same line that 5 minutes earlier had processed the charge).

Leaving the Turks we fueled up in San Juan, Puerto Rico and them continued on the Nassua, Bahamas. Between these two stops was the first time that we were truly out of sight of any land and there were no boats or planes that we could see. Kinda interesting. In Nassua called for US customs, fueled and carried on, it sure was interesting to see the skyline of Fort Lauderdale because for the last three days we had only been seeing small cities with no highrises on the islands.

Made it through customs surprisingly easy. No one checked the plane nor our luggage, just our passports. Couldn´t carry on further last night due to nasty weather, and glad we didn´t after hearing about the tornados in Atlanta. Today Saturday got as far as Sarasota, Florida just south of Tampa, low ceilings and fog were stopping us from carrying on but the weather should clear tomorrow (fingers crossed). the US has been treating us good. They have FBO´s (fixed base operators) which is where they sell fuel, parking space and other aviation products and services. There is wifi internet, comfortable lounges, all flying information, courtesy cars and they even had free popcorn, cookies, M and M´s and ice cream which Josh and I had for breakfast today.

Well we are 1844kts from home and we´re really looking forward to being there.