Logs

I few people have emailed in and said they miss reading my logs. You know what? I miss writing them. I guess I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed and detached from my words. What I really miss is waking up and not feeling the “pull” of the environment (society) around me. I don’t enjoy living in a synthetic milieu yet I find myself stuck in one. I think I could easily become the weird guy that gets lost in the sea and ends up totally happy traveling the world and dancing on his decks to the sound of the wind.  When I’m alone my mind wonders and I find my words, and the rhythm of my life that accompanies them. I need to sail as soon as possible!

For those of you who get my next DVD, you’ll see that it opens in the San Blas islands (Panama). In my travels I’ve found this to be the closest thing I know to Paradise. Form my research I think I’ll find the Maldives and Cocos (Keeling) islands in the Indian on the same level of peace. But for now I’d like to spend a bit of time back in the San Blas with the Kuna to detox from my time “under the thumb”. If anyone is interested in seeing the San Blas please let me know. It’s relatively easy to get to and I believe the experience of a lifetime.

I sweat over charts last night “Where to go, where to go”!!!! The circumnavigation thing isn’t so important to me anymore however I’m sure I’ll get there. I don’t feel the need to prove anything to myself which is really empowering. I thought of crossing the Atlantic next season but that puts me in Europe and that doesn’t interest me so much. That being said I think I’d really enjoy the eastern Mediterranean, then dipping into the Indian via the Suez Canal.  The cool thing about that plan is that as soon as I hit Australia I’d finish my circumnavigation and end up in the western Pacific/Indian which is where I’d like to end up.

My days are still focused of my magnificent Splendid, and my dreams are filled with sailing her over the big blue.

Only time will unravel my plans.

Sail far and live slowly.

– Alex