Friday, April 24, 2009

Day 1 - travel to FL - boat broker oddity!

Thursday morning, Lucas dropped us at Indianapolis Airport, headed for Ft. Lauderdale.
Upon arrival, our boat broker, John Earle picked us up and we headed to his office. In route, our banker, Gavin texted me and said the wire transfer for funds to the brokers escrow account was in process. Great timing. We arrived to the broker office and met Betsy the office manager. She said, "oh, your wire has just now come through, all is well". Isn't that amazing that as we walk in the wired funds were complete?
John our broker called the documentation agent, Amalia to determine if a scanned/emailed copy of the deletion document now signed by the Malasian government was okay in order that she may begin the documentation with the US Coast Guard for our new boat and she confirmed, yes,that would be fine. Great, we won't have to wait on "snail mail" so the appropriate documents can be mailed from Malasia to the US so we can close on our transaction.
See, the boat (now known as "Chartwell" is "flagged in Malasia" and we can't close on it until it is deleted from Malasian records)
Anyway, we headed to lunch and enroute, John, Ed and I got to know one another, families, etc. To make a long story shorter, John mentioned that his parents (from Vermont) had moved to Panama and we building a home there. We said, "well, our friends Ken and Chipper Gregory had also purchased land in Panama a few years ago with the hope of someday building a home there". John said, "well, my parents just got a little concerned about the way things were going in the US and decided to try this for a while". "They moved to a town called "Boquetta" (sp). We said, "wow, that wierd, that's where our friends also purchased land". John said, "hugh, what are there names?" We responded. He then called his mom and ask her if she just might know these people. Here's the real WOW to this story.
John, our boat broker in Ft. Lauderdale has parents from Vermont who have moved to the country Panama and built a house and it is right next door to our friends from Greenwood IN, the Gregorys and the land they have purchased! The Earles and the Gregorys have had cocktails on the Earles back porch and their realtive, Peter who also has built a home there emails with Ken Gregory monthy. Peter and his cousin John, our boat broker grew up together as best friends.
For those who read this who know me understand that I believe that there is no coincidence in life....only Gods plan unfolding before our eyes if we chose to let it happen.
May God have the glory.
Peace, Lisa

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