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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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November wind charts...
November 5, 2007 - Day 119
Thanks to the work by thirty-six 8th grade students at the Orrville Middle School in Orrville, Ohio, I now have the November QuikSCAT average wind charts for the ocean surface area between 5S-10N and
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Shearwater, or not?
November 4, 2007 - Day 118
On my last dispatch, I posted that a shearwater had befriended my boat, landing repeatedly on my starboard side to pick the bait fish. I am reminded that shearwater have a short black hooked beak, wh
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Making friends on the way to the Equator...
November 2, 2007 - Day 116
As of yesterday, the trip odometer on my chartplotter indicated that my boat had meandered past 4,000 nautical miles. I have 3,593 nm as the crow flies to reach Mooloolaba, and I am located 2,589 nm
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Part 1 - Long road toward the educational mission...
October 28, 2007 - Day 111
I remember being bored in class when I was little, especially when the learning seemed to require memorization. History classes only peaked my interest if they talked about the people and their relat
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Moving two steps forward, one step back...
October 24, 2007 - Day 107
The condition of my neck is improving. The symptoms are reduced to a spot of dull burning ache right on my cervical spine, which sometimes gets worse and feels bigger than it is. The soft collar neck
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Rowing in a grey fish bowl...
October 22, 2007 - Day 105
Saturday was a very unique day, which delivered the most serious weather to me on this crossing. I woke up that morning at day break, to do a conference call with the elementary school students at th
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Raining very hard...
October 21, 2007 - Day 104
The last two days have been terrible for weather, with variable winds and very strong rain squalls. I have not seen the sun for five straight days, which is compounding my problems, depleting my batt
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Later dispatches -
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