This connection is still too slow and expensive to use routinely, so I will continue to write our bloggings off-line, and post them when we get to a high-speed connection. In the meantime, we will check email and post a few short items from time to time on Facebook, which seems to work much more quickly than anything else (the system on the Ryndam seems to have a direct connection to Facebook). Cheers, the Cruisers