Posts from ‘April, 2008’

Tonight we are going around the Olympic Peninsula and down into the Puget Sound. Maybe it’s just because I’ve been in the desert for the last 4 weeks, but it is pretty comforting to look out and see mountains with snow and, and ……..trees! Oh the beautiful trees! Funny the things you miss when you [...]

Today has been pretty uneventful. About the best thing that happened today is we got a thumbs up on the pre-CDC inspection that we were supposed to get in San Diego, but are destined to get in Seattle. Other than that, I cooked up some really good tacos for lunch today, about the best I’ve [...]

Last night I made my first contact from my ham radio off of the boat. We were passing by San Francisco and I got to open up the repeater on Mt Diablo for a little bit and have a chat with a couple of hams on their daily commute. It was interesting to hear them [...]

Sorry for the delay, I ended up having a different kind of schedule the last couple of days. I’ll give you two journal entries today, then we will be back on track for a while……
4/24
We are on day two of our San Diego to Seattle leg now. It’s been a pretty good day in all, [...]

Today has been a pretty rough day at sea. It’s interesting to see how everyone is handling it. Pretty much all of the stewards, and the purser are so sick that they can’t even think. One of the deck hands isn’t faring all to well either, but the other three are seemingly doing pretty well. [...]

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 [...]

Our repositioning has officially begun. We left La Paz, BCS at noon PST and have been underway ever since. We should be rounding the other side of the peninsula in the early hours of the morning into the Pacific Ocean. From what the Captain has seen of the weather reports so far, the weather should [...]

Today was the last day of our last trip in Baja. It’s been a good one, we have seen so much down here it has left a permanent scar. The good kind of scar of course. I know that Alaska is going to be amazing, but I’m not sure if it will be better or [...]

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 [...]

Today has been about as average of a day as I have had since I got here. There is really not all that much going on right now that is really different, we spent the day at Isla San Marcos, the bird sanctuary that we were at last week, and while the birds were interesting, [...]