Fellette says that I do not have to write every day, and of course she is right. However I have time on my hands and I somehow imagine that I am writing to individuals, not just a meaningless electronic media that takes a message and puts it into outer space...
Hello, Myra, Niaomi, Luci, Marian, Peg and Gord, Graham, and Andy are you following this thing? Lee, how is Bev doing? I know that our kids are too busy with other 'distractions' to follow us too closely.
Our Australian friends Rod and Lyn, who are about to start on an adventure of their own that makes our journey look like a walk in King's Park, will be doing a blog for the first time. And friends Keith and Jenny in Melbourne, who print every page of our daily scribbles, and presented it to us three months ago when we stayed with them for a few days.
At home friends Don and CJ who I often phone very early in the morning at home just to make sure they have survived the night and are anxious to know how they are doing with the early morning crossword puzzle. Dear friends Ian and Judy in Buckinghampshire, and Robert and Brenda in my fathers home county of Lancashire. We think of you often.
All of you and others whom I have sadly omitted are on our minds more often than you would know. Our kin are always near to mind, and it seems the farther we get from home the more important family and friends are. I will later regret mentioning names because I will have omitted some so dear to me.
Our son Craig is no further than a few clicks away on the computer as we blunder our way around the world in what is really the dark ages of computer communication in the middle of the biggest ocean in the world. [It is indeed almost a miracle that we can communicate at all.] Without him, we would be out of touch.
Today we attended a second talk on the solar system. The speaker is from Vancouver [!] and a very knowledgeable and passionate man he is. He is extremely well received. It seems that in the middle of the ocean a good speaker talking on almost anything will draw a full house. He is excellent however, and today he showed us pictures taken two days ago that were taken of the 'dark side' of Mercury, seen for the first time taken by a probe that was launched a year or so ago. [Where does the money come from to do this stuff?]
It seems so odd that they can do that sort of exploration, yet the ship is out of touch for TV reception and the internet is so-so at best.
I have attached a few pictures of what our ship was doing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean this afternoon. From the land of endless all-day pizza with desserts galore, polished teak & brass with blue skies and calm seas!
Two more sea days and then land, plus possibly tomorrow we may actually see a bird! WOW.
To answer your question – yes, I sign in first thing every morning and check your blog and enjoy it very much.
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