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Question - | "What does having a dream mean to you?" |
Answer - | "A dream is a goal glimmering in the distance; it is an inner calling which, when accomplished,
serves as the rite of passage into wisdom." Erden Eruç - Sep 17, 2004 |
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How do I sleep?
August 13, 2007 - Day 35
All that talk of losing sleep, reminded me of a random act of kindness, which is now helping in my comfort.
One of the typical questions I got predeparture was how I slept. My typical answers
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Should I lose sleep over the news?
August 11, 2007 - Day 33
I received word today, that Hurricane Flossie has formed about 930nm SW of me with 115kt winds. It is expected to pass south of Hawaii's big island about mid week. Its current location is about
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One month messages
August 9, 2007 - Day 31
My wife Nancy gave me a clear plastic bag on June 2nd, ahead of my first departure attempt from Tiburon. In it, were dated envelopes to be opened on June 15th, on day 30, on my birthday in July, afte
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60th Anniversary of Kon-Tiki
August 8, 2007 - Day 30
60 years ago on August 7, a balsa wood raft called the Kon-Tiki completed a voyage from South America to Polynesia. The trip, headed by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, demonstrated that ancient Per
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1000 nautical miles on my odometer...
Aug 7, 2007 - Day 29
Last night, the odometer on my chartplotter rolled past 1000nm a couple hours after sunset. At that time, I was 733nm from Bodega Bay where I had launched in the morning on July 10th. I had 5560nm t
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I like clouds better!
August 5, 2007 - Day 27
Thankfully the cloud cover is back and the cooling winds have returned from the NNE. Last night as I tried to get comfortable to sleep, I winced as the skin on my shoulders stretched or wrinkled. My
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Almost out of fresh fruits...
August 3, 2007 - Day 25
Yesterday, I ate the last bagel and masala naan bread, an Indian flat bread variety with curry. I am also out of mangoes. I had kept eyeing that final mango for about a week, until I finally gave in
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Pollution in our oceans...
August 1, 2007
You remember my dispatch on July 20th, mentioning the albatross which visited my boat. I received word that the visiting bird was indeed an albatross, a "dark footed albatross" to be exact.
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