This time, Hong Tao and Carol guessed wrong, and until noon, Lily was still alive, not only did she not vomit because of seasickness, but also made her hometown beef and black bean rice for everyone. It is said that the children of the poor are in charge of the house early, and this is true, Lily has good cooking skills, and even though it is in the harsh kitchen environment of a sailboat, she still stews beef deliciously.

"You used to be on a boat?" Carol was disappointed by the fact that Lily wasn't seasick.

"No, I threw up on the first plane to Miami, but now I'm not dizzy, I just have a little headache. Lily gulped down the black bean rice on her plate, tossing and turning all morning, making her appetite whet her appetite.

"It's a talent, you can't learn it! it's better not to get seasick, but you are not allowed to go to the deck after eating, you need to rest, and we have to be on duty at night." Hong Tao didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed, he still wanted to take the opportunity of Lily's seasickness to get closer to her, it seems that he has to find another opportunity in the future.

"Oh...... Actually...... I'm not tired" Lily is like a child who has just gotten a new toy, her eyes are full of excitement, and when she hears Hong Tao say let her rest, although she doesn't dare to say no, she is not very happy.

"You have to rest if you don't get tired, and it's like this every day in the future, so that you can play until you get bored. In order to ensure your own safety, don't take what I say as a deaf ear. Aren't you tired? That's right, after washing the clothes and then going to sleep, I'll go to sleep and wash this piece on my body!" Hong Tao ate the fastest, threw the plate on the table, and walked back to the bedroom. Soon a pair of shorts was thrown out of the bedroom.

"Perverted!bastard!" Lily still had food in her mouth, and she didn't stop her from scolding at the bedroom.

Since he set foot on this sailboat. Lily found herself changing every day, not just speaking more rudely. Many notions have also been reinvented. At first, she saw Hong Tao sleeping naked in the same bed with Carol and Rada, but she still avoided it in disgust. But after a few days of sleeping on the couch by herself, she had to climb into the big bed and roll off the couch because she fell asleep. Although he still uses a blanket piled up in the middle of the bed as a partition, he is no longer so disgusted with what is happening around him.

Life at sea is thrilling, exciting, simple and happy, but it is also extremely boring and monotonous. There was no movie, no TV, no music, no shopping, not even a café or bar. There are just a few videotapes and books. It's not interesting to look at it over and over, playing cards, swimming, fishing, jet skiing, basking in the sun are all the entertainment, and you have to wipe the deck, cook, do laundry, and pull those heavy sail ropes every day. Often after a shift, you are already exhausted.

At this time, alcohol and sex are the best way to soothe, flirt and have that love, not only can let the body get vent, but also relax the tense spirit. Sometimes Lily lies beside Hong Tao, secretly looking at his strong body, and she can't help but feel an impulse. Even thinking that if he made further moves, maybe he would be half-pushed. But he didn't, and Lily was a little angry when she thought of this. Is he worse than Carol and Lada?

With the help of strong northeast trade winds, the Mad Mouse III came back to life from a half-dead rat at an average speed of 400 kilometers per day. Rushing towards the West Indies day and night, it took only six days to plunge headlong into the port city of Plata in the northern Dominican Republic.

The stop was entirely improvised. According to the original plan, it was supposed to arrive in Miami in one go. But people are not as good as the sky, and there was strong convective weather just in front of the route. There are tropical storms forming. No matter how bold Hong Tao is and willing to challenge nature, he does not dare to wrestle with a tropical hurricane, then it is not called a challenge, but suicide.

When it came to which port to call, Hong Tao also made a special call to ask Mr. Elisa and Mr. Phil, and finally chose Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic among the British Virgin, Puerto Rico, Dominica and Haiti. It is said that this country is mainly composed of mixed Indo-European races, mixed black and white races and some white people, and the character is relatively mild.

Speaking of this West Indies, the name is very confusing, it has a large number of names, and people in various places are not quite uniform in what it is called. When Hong Tao took the B-class sailing captain's license, the only wrong question was because he forgot an alias here.

How did the West Indies, which sound like they should be in the Indian Ocean or Southeast Asia, go to the Caribbean? Speaking of which, it was the fault of Columbus, who was not very serious about his work, and when he first discovered this place, he mistakenly thought that he had arrived in India, so he marked the name of the Indies on the chart. In addition to marking the islands, he also regarded the indigenous people living here as a race near India, so he also casually named the Indians. But when he crossed the Strait of Magellan and really arrived in South Asia, he realized that he was wrong.

If it's wrong, he'll change it, he'll have a good face, and he doesn't want to admit that he was wrong before, so what should he do? India is in the eastern hemisphere, and this archipelago is in the western hemisphere, and this distance is too far away to make up nonsense. However, Xiaobu had a trick, he directly added a Western word in front of the Indies, and called the island the West Indies, which was used to distinguish it from the East Indies, which was later Southeast Asia. Later generations will also be wrong, and the name has been inherited.

Where is the West Indies? It's a huge expanse of all the islands from the south of the Florida peninsula to the north coast of Brazil. Because the area covered by this name is too wide, it is subdivided into the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles. Under these three groups of archipelagos, there are several small islands, such as the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands, etc., which are extremely chaotic anyway. So far, Hong Tao has not figured out how many names there are here.

Not only the name is messy, but the islands here are also messy, there are more than 1,000 large and small, such as Cuba Island, Jamaica Island, Hispaniola Island, etc., tens of thousands of square kilometers, living millions of people; if the small ones are not professional charts, you can't find them on it, there are nothing but a few reefs that have just come out of the sea, and the area is not enough to build a football field, and naturally there is no one, so it is better to call the island a big reef.

There are more than 20 large and small countries and trustee states on the island of the West Indies, many of which only broke away from the colonial state or became independent after World War II. Today it is still a republic, tomorrow it will be changed to a military government, and the day after tomorrow it will become a trusteeship. If anyone is interested in politics, then it is very good to come here to study and study, almost all the political systems in the world can be seen here, and what is not in the world is also here, it is simply a hodgepodge.

The reasons for the turmoil are not only historical issues, racial issues, but also geopolitical factors. Relying on the big guy of the United States, once it feels that anyone does not like it, it will immediately use all kinds of excuses to interfere in your internal affairs, toss and collapse the original government, and replace it with a leader it likes. After a few years, it doesn't like this person again, so let's toss it again. Just tossing and tossing, and in the end I don't want to toss it, and many local politicians rely on this kind of tossing to increase their political chips, which has become a game for them, as for whether the people below are suffering, who can take care of it.

Moreover, due to the long-term colonial rule, the industrial model of these small countries is very homogeneous, and most of them are based on agriculture or selling resources. The economy is controlled by a large country, and it has no industrial base, so it is difficult to develop, and the only thing that can be relied on is the gift of nature. The sea here is very clear, the sea is turquoise, the four seasons are like summer, the original scenery is everywhere, it has become a holiday destination for many wealthy people in Europe and the United States, and tourism has become the economic pillar of many countries.

Another important reason why Hong Tao chose to stop at Puerto Plata is Bermuda's Devil's Triangle. The southern end of this triangle starts from this sea, with Miami in the west and Bermuda in the east, exactly an equilateral triangle with a side length of 2,000 kilometers. Since it is a crossing, it is necessary to start from the beginning, Hong Tao does not want to find a place to stop halfway through, he plans to rush to Miami from here. It's only 2,000 kilometers, and if nothing else, I'll be enjoying a meal in a hotel in Miami a week later.

The Dominican Republic, located in the east of Hispaniola, the second largest island in the West Indies, occupies about two-thirds of the island's land area, and the other third is the Republic of Haiti. Originally, the two of them were one country, called the Republic of Haiti, but later due to various factors, they were divided into two. Among them, the Republic of Haiti is very unfriendly to China, and it has established diplomatic relations with Wanwan so far, and it does not know the current affairs, so this is also the reason why it has become the poorest country in the world.

The Dominican Republic is both strange and familiar to Hong Tao, and the strange thing is that he has never been here, and he is familiar with the fact that it is the same as Cuba, rich in cigars! A small number of the cigars Hong Tao smokes are all made in Dominica, and it tastes slightly different from Cuban cigars, and it is impossible to say which one is good and which is bad, mainly depends on which one you like. In addition to this, there is another well-known place in Dominica, which is the Columbus Lighthouse. It was the first settlement where Columbus discovered the New World, and after Columbus's death, his body was buried in Columbus Park in Santo Domingo, the capital of Dominica, in accordance with his will. There is a statue of him, built in 1992 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of his discovery of the New World. (To be continued......)