Blogs from Tubuai, French Polynesia, Oceania

Five days later and ten pounds lighter. Who would have known that one could subsist on mashed potatoes and saltine crackers for so many endless days at sea. I read six books and slept for approximately 80% of the trip, trying to put my mind elsewhere aside from the up and down, topsy-turvy motion of the boat. From my small porthole in my stateroom (bedroom), I went from seeing 6 inches of water to 6 inches of sky, to 6 inches of water to 6 inches of sky….and if that isn’t enough to turn one’s stomach, just throw in the acrid smell of alcohol from our galley stove, sticky 90 degree heat, and the sound of others throwing up into their personalized buckets. Poor Aunt Dedee laid in a horizontal position the entire time, ill from ... read more