January 14-17,
Sea day #2.
Well, the best laid plans and all that stuff……
Once we were under way, I wrote a blog only to find I had no access to sailwest.net. For two days and many hours with the ships IT guy, and with the help of my IT guy (sc@clnw.com), no luck. So, I’ll keep writing every day or so, but I won’t be able to publish them until we reach shore. This is our longest sea days strung together and when we hit Hilo, I will publish everything I have written. What this means to you is if we are at sea, don’t look for any news on my blog.
Welcome to the great lake of the Pacific. All calm out here. But, as my good preacher friend said “this too shall pass”. I’m sure we will pay for these smooth sea days.
How do you do 5 days straight at sea? Don’t look at a calendar or clock. If you are hungry, eat, if thirsty, drink, if sleepy, hit the sack. I imagine you have figured out where I’m going with this.
I bought a subscription to NFL, com so I can watch the playoffs and the Superbowl. $6.99, money well spent unless you ask Kim.
Every day at noon our captain gives an update as to how we are doing. Today we are 1679 miles from Hawaii, 635 miles from the nearest land, a small uninhabited island. It’s 72 degrees outside. (sorry snowbound friends).
They brought this guy, Riaan Manser, on board to give us lectures. He is amazing. He has bicycled around Africa, Kayaked around Iceland, and when he proposed to his wife and asked where she would like to get married, she said Hawaii. So, they set off in a rowboat from San Francisco and rowed to Hawaii. His stories of the people he met is so wrought with emotion that it brought me to tears. Folks, we don’t have a clue how well we live our lives. Look him up, he has written several books. They have 2 or 3 lectures a day, We go with the attitude that if we are not interested at the 10 minute mark we will leave, happy to say we haven’t left yet.
Have you ever tried to weigh yourself on a moving ship? Can’t be done! The constant motion, though slight makes the scale to funny things to your weight. Gained 20 pounds oops lost 20 pounds 😉
Tomorrow is Hilo Hawaii! Land! 82 degrees on our veranda today. More later…….
Good grief, you would really need to be in love to row a boat from the U.S. to Hawaii.. wow tough people.
Don’t get the bright white body sunburned!