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We never knew what we didn’t have.



We enjoy America’s moniker of ‘melting pot’ as a feature that distinguishes us from other places. It seems a great American pastime to find this way or that way to distinguish ourselves, especially in areas of our obvious superiority, and one area of that superiority is in our lack of a defining culture. Oh, there are those who wax poetically about the multiculturalism of this great country and we all… Continue

“You’re going to a lot of places where they don’t value human life like we do.”



Nobody, least of all me, with my conservative Republican roots, my Reformed religion, and my resistance to change, could foresee the unintended truth of that statement. A statement we heard on numerous occasions as we prepared for our journey. Our journey happens to be a four and a half year circumnavigation of the world in a sailboat.



We learn that as far as joy is concerned, more is less. The… Continue