Delicado spends the hurricane season in Trinidad, below the path of the storms.
Heading for the Panama Canal she traverses the pirated waters along the Venezuelan coast to Columbia, calling into the New World city of Cartagena before visiting the diminutive Kuna who inhabit the San Blas Islands that are strewn along the Panamanian coast.
The Panama Canal brings Deli to the Pacific Ocean which is all that separates her from home.