The Explorer stopped in Hawaii today for one day! What a tease... it was kind of like making a pit-stop on a long road trip from Japan to Costa Rica. It was really a great day and I definately would look forward to going back someday. It was my first time on US land since I left Florida on January 18th and although I had never been to Hawaii, there was a sense of the familiar there. People spoke English, took US$, drove on the right side of the road, we didn't ha...

At sea again! We're in the middle of an 8 day stretch sailing from Japan to Hawaii and I've offered to help paddle if it will get us home faster. Yes, I'm ready to go home. There's nothing specifically good, or bad, and that's the problem. Its just nothing! I feel so removed from everything purposeful. Anyways...enough complaining. I will be home in 3 weeks and who knows that that will bring. It is uncertain but at least it will be mine! I will have control over...