First full day at sea….no land in sight!
Today has been our first full day at sea on our voyage to Alaska. It’s been a little rough, but really nothing all too bad. Mostly just the bow of the boat bobbing up and down the whole time. Like I said before, this is far better than side to side or even worse is both. The weather forecast is still the same as yesterday, so it looks like the next couple of days will be a bit rougher. Not too big a deal, I’ve been just finding as many things to do to keep myself busy as possible, so that way my mind stays off of the motion. I noticed that the ones who are not handling things well are the ones that aren’t really doing anything. My logic makes sense to me, anyways.
I am officially as far north on the Baja peninsula now as I have been so far, we passed Magdalena Bay at about 4 pm today. I’ve been learning about the boat quite a bit lately, it’s been pretty cool. The boat is traveling at about 10 nautical mph, and from what I understand there are 1.3 miles in a nautical mile, so we are traveling at about 13 mph in Lehman’s terms. That’s why it takes 12 days to go from La Paz to Seattle. I couldn’t even imagine driving a car that slow for that distance, but luckily in a boat it’s plenty fast considering the road is a little bumpy so to speak. We are pretty much headed in a straight line up the coast so there are times when we actually can’t see land at all, this is kind of strange for me, it’s the first time really. It’s an interesting feeling for your mind, to not see land anywhere on any horizon. Very interesting indeed.
If you didn’t notice, I change a couple things on the site yesterday, most noticeably the colors on the blog. It’s a bit easier to read this way so I hope it’s better for you. Most of my plans to better the website have been put back by crappy internet connections, so I will just continue to hoard my thoughts till a later date when I can make them known to all. It’s frustrating, but what do you do?
Most of my free time now is spent day dreaming of the places that I want to go next. Putting me on a boat in the ocean with a bunch of books that are all geared towards travel has shown me much good information, as well as given me plenty of time to go over it. That Siberian Railway trip is sure looking mighty fine now, I want to see Lake Baikal within my lifetime. It’s right up there with Machu Picchu, and I’m going to make it happen. That and overlanding in Africa, the Kalahari, those are the three that I have my sights set on.
