Hello from San Francisco! We sailed in under the Golden Gate Bridge around 2am the morning of last Friday, having been at sea since the prior Monday (up at Ilwaco in the mouth of the Columbia
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Have you ever read John Steinbeck's "Log of the Sea of Cortez"? It's basically a book about a scientific/marine biology expedition that Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts made to the Sea of Cortez (AKA Gulf of Baja California) in the 1940s. It's not one of Steinbeck's more popular novels, but it's an interesting read none the less; it kind of alternates between stories about the stuff they saw, and analysis of the stuff that they discussed while together on the trip.
If you had a spare month or three to shackle yourself to a wordprocessor, you'd probably be able to generate a pretty cool book based on your recent sea voyages.
I really wish I'd had more time to write, I could have made a decent LJ entry every day but as it happens I ended up rarely having time to make more than two a week.. if not one a month! ): In the evenings it has fortunately been not so much work as much as fun stuff going on, but there's always things going on here!
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If you had a spare month or three to shackle yourself to a wordprocessor, you'd probably be able to generate a pretty cool book based on your recent sea voyages.
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