Day one was anticlimactic......trips to the bank, post office, grocery store, pharmacy and more trips up and down the dock with last minute errands.
Whisper was far from ready, but the moment had arrived. Now or never. So, with heart in mouth I said last farewells to friends at the Racine Yacht Club and cast off officialy at 1400h.
We left with a W wind, which became SW, then NW, then NE then E then back around the compass again before it died off Milwaukee. So night one spent in MKE.....plans for an early Saturday start up the Wisconsin sore.
G'night all.
Don
Friday, July 31, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
When does a trip begin
Family and some friends are puzzled as to why I would take a "flyer" in a down economy. I'll admit to a few butterflies of my own.
Encouragement has come from a wide spectrum of sources, those who believe I need to get a handle on my life. Those of a more spiritual or cosmological persuasion allude to a "hole in my energy center". Those who have done this trip before extoll the wonders to be experienced. And then there are those who would live vicariously through me.
Suffice to say, with a career in tatters yet again, I need to find not only the "where" but the "how" to be. I have always worked hard, tried hard, cared with the end result being disillusionment, mine and my employers'. So this voyage is as much about inward discovery as about sailing away.
I have often said I want to sail towards something, not away from something. This trip is both. I'm just not sure where the "towards" will lead me.
To those who feel let down by my going, in particular a daughter who desperately needs help with college expenses, please believe this is not a frivolous exercise. I am not running away to sea. I am urgently trying to find a sustainable path enabling me to be what you need and want of me.
When does a trip begin? When the need to go far exceeds the need to stay.
Encouragement has come from a wide spectrum of sources, those who believe I need to get a handle on my life. Those of a more spiritual or cosmological persuasion allude to a "hole in my energy center". Those who have done this trip before extoll the wonders to be experienced. And then there are those who would live vicariously through me.
Suffice to say, with a career in tatters yet again, I need to find not only the "where" but the "how" to be. I have always worked hard, tried hard, cared with the end result being disillusionment, mine and my employers'. So this voyage is as much about inward discovery as about sailing away.
I have often said I want to sail towards something, not away from something. This trip is both. I'm just not sure where the "towards" will lead me.
To those who feel let down by my going, in particular a daughter who desperately needs help with college expenses, please believe this is not a frivolous exercise. I am not running away to sea. I am urgently trying to find a sustainable path enabling me to be what you need and want of me.
When does a trip begin? When the need to go far exceeds the need to stay.
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