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Time has Sped Up

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Tears to a Wish

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Stunning. That’s how Michael saw Nuku Hiva when we arrived. Spired mountains rise from the Pacific Ocean, lush…

Our 1st Pacific Crossing

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The answer to your question is yes. There is water as far as the eye can see in…

The Night Watch

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Humans are Guests Here

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Too anxious and tearful to look into the camera lens for our pre-departure photo, I suggested Michael and…

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain -

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.

- Paulo Coelho -

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

- Groucho Marx -

A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.

- Albert Einstein -

I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Everything will be alright in the end … If it’s not alright, then it’s not yet the end.

- Sonny Kapoor -

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”

- Hunter S. Thompson -