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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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Booby landings...
January 9, 2008 - Day 184
As I progressed west on the north side of the island of Palmyra, I encountered Brown Booby and Redfooted Booby. Fellow Explorers Club member Don Bekins wrote once that a Redfooted Booby colony exists
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Close encounters...
January 6, 2008 - Day 181
After I posted my dispatch yesterday and saw it inevitable that I would soon find myself on the strongest flow of the main counter current between 7N-7.5N, the wind died just before sunset. It then f
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Shipping lane...
January 5, 2008 - Day 180
As I post new dispatches, three most recent ones appear below as blurbs. The rest are accessible by the link below those. If you have not entered your email address on the top right corner of this p
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90-Degrees off course...
January 4th, 2008 - Day 179
The progress over the last week has been wonderful, during which I gained quite a bit of distance due west. But the last few days brought relentless ESE winds which have now set the sea to carry my b
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Turkish Hospitality
January 3, 2008
As I returned home from my first visit to Turkey in December of 2000, the customs officer who cleared me through immigration asked me how I liked Turkey. I told him it was wonderf
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Hopeful for 2008...
December 30, 2007 - Day 174
I am making reasonable progress toward the Equator, though the winds are still a problem, carrying me west more than I would like. There also appears to be a secondary counter flow southwest of me wh
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Is there an end in sight?
December 28, 2007 - Day 172
Hopefully this attempt due southwest will finally result in a break toward the Equator so that I can be a bit more in charge of my destiny. Until then, I will remain in the rain belt around the conver
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Garbage problem on the Pacific Ocean
December 27, 2007 - Day 171
When I lost a 5-lt plastic jug and a Nalgene bottle on the 19th, the night that I was thrown against the port side cabin wall, that was unfortunate. I tied most everything down on the 20th, but who k
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