At sea, south of Hawaii: We’ve left Kona behind and will be sailing for the next six days until we reach the nation of Samoa, not to be confused with its neighbor American Samoa which we’ve visited. We’ve not been to Samoa so we add another country to our life list.
You know birdwatchers keep a “life list” of the birds they’ve seen, plus where and when? The DrsC have no such formal list but we joke about the number of countries we’ve visited. The other DrC maintains it is currently 140, I’m certain it’s over 100.
The main places we’ve not visited are in Central Asia, a cluster mostly of former SSRs with -stan in their name. Those and sub Saharan Africa are places we’ve not been and are likely to never reach. Anyway, visiting the nation of Samoa will be +1 to our phantom life list.
In any event, we are abroad on the bosom of the briny and will be for most of a week. This group of experienced travelers won’t have trouble entertaining ourselves. We will read or listen to books, watch films, attend lectures and musical performances, eat too much, lie by the pool, go to the spa and trade travel yarns with other much traveled folk. The time will pass.
We are now four time zones west of the Pacific coastline. It suggests we have sailed west approximately the distance from New York to California which encompasses four time zones.
I’ve no idea how many more we’ll cross but everyone of them is more jet lag we have to overcome after flying home. I’m guessing a week of feeling hung over - that’s how I experience jet lag, like a medium hangover, basically the blahs.
