Getting ready for the big trip
The seas have been pretty rough today, but fortunately we are headed with the winds so the boat isn’t rocking all too much. It’s when the waves are hitting the side of the boat that you get rocking that is hard to deal with. I witnessed an amazing sunset tonight, the waves crashing all around made a haze come up off of the water that turned the sunlight going over the horizon an awesome array of colors. I am truly spoiled now by the sunrises and sunsets that I get to see every day.
We’ve been getting ready for the trip up to Alaska, and it’s been interesting. The biggest problem is that we can’t bring any food that we bought in Mexico back into the US with us. There is a customs check in San Diego and we pretty much have to have no food on board when we get there. What the plan is at this point, and I know it sounds crazy, but we will order a little bit to get us through till we get up there, then what ever is left over when we get to Tijauna we will pitch off the boat while we are at sea. I won’t even really get into how much food we throw away every day, it’s enough that I almost got sick when I first saw it. The sad thing is that there is absolutely nothing I can do about it. The nature of the beast. Anyways so we are trying to get everything all lined out food wise for the trip right now. We plan to not only have no food, but we also plan to have everything so clean that the CDC will not even think about doing a full on inspection. It shouldn’t be too rough. We are going to be cooking some crazy huge and good meals for the crew on the trip up there. Then once we get through all those fun little inspections, we will get in a huge order of food and be on our way again. The best part is that we are only allowed something silly like 4 hours in port at San Diego to do all of this. It should be pretty interesting.
I finished all of my initial training today. I had no idea that I would need to know so much, but it really is a good thing. If you think about it, it really does make sense, there is only so many people on the boat so everyone has a job. If for some reason someone can’t do their job then someone else has to do two jobs. It’s actually great to learn about fire fighting, CPR and rescue issues on the boat, I am happy to be a part of anything that will help out. I will also have to do some more training when I get home, and keep up with it as well. I’m glad.
If I have time in La Paz on Saturday I will get over to the internet cafe and try to post up some of the amazing pictures that I have. No promises, but there are some amazing ones. I’m not positive that I will have time, but I hope so.
