When they made it to St. Thomas USVI They made the front page. They had just crossed the Atlantic and sailed up the Island chain and with each stop making news.
It was then that they met the “Mistic poet” J.P. Gimenez who befriended them and wrote a poem about them. shown here below. More about him in my other site http://dohm.com/Family/category/jose-patricio-gimenez/
