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| The tour lengths get shorter-14 Daze Panama Canal Crossing is done. California was created to provide a place for boats to visit. |
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| Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. |
"Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. " Herman Melville
I can relate to that quote-Hospitality jobs are a safety net for the "middle classes"; jobs of last resort when the w2 salaried gigs are unavailable. Since they are so low paying, people quit and there is high turn over. I simply wanted to travel around the world.
I wrote:Call it faith! A passion for the possible. I am full of it, and shooting from the hip that is to say, as I stated, having an adventure is something more but nothing less than bad planning. When I cold-called for my first ship job, and got it after a 12 minute elevator pitch, I began to trust myself, and my elevator pitch, and only when you trust yourself can you truly begin to live it up.
