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October 31, 1998
San Francisco to Hawaii, Second Attempt. Update #40
40. Date: Sat, 31 Oct 98 03:59:35 GMT
Latitude: 25 degrees 39.550 minutes North
Longitude: 139 degrees 24.911 minutes West
Wind NE, Force 3-4
Friday evening (Moksha time). I ought to be be upstairs at the Presidio Yacht Club, Sausalito, tucking into one of Mike's amazing sea bass dinners -put one on hold please Mike! Instead, were still bashing out the miles, taking full advantage of continuing force 3-4 northeasterly with a 24 hour pedal rotation gradually taking its toll.
You may have noticed a great many opinions in our updates and very little actual news, for the good reason that hardly anything ever happens: day slowly changes to night, and the vast liquid desert shifts its endless shapes of blue and white. Even the temperature stays pretty much the same. I find my mind wandering back home...early autumn, has there been a frost and crisp, cold morning, do the apple trees sag with fat green fruit, what color is the forest leaves, can you smell them damp and rotting, do boys drag there feet through the piles on their way to school -talking of halloween and bonfires and christmas, have the street lights been turned on now before you get home, are the milkman and postman searching for the faithful woolly sweater for this weeks early morning delivery. ("No, they've had them on all rotten summer" a chorus replies). Is the fire back in the hearth, coal ordered, wood stacked, have the chaffinch stopped calling, lawn mowers quit rattling? Two days ago I was remarking on the paradox that we take for granted what we have and value what we lack. Presently, in the sub-tropical Pacific, I'm as curious about my home as I ever was about the world. -Steve
Lewis & Smith,
The Moksha crew
Posted on October 31, 1998 6:34 PM