Well, Ken and I have arrived on Wishful Thinking after 23 days at sea. It was an uneventful passage overall, the biggest problems being related to the self-steering gear. However, we improvised and what we ended up doing in the end was better than what we started with in the first place. Once we tied up and took some hot showers, we snuck off for our first meal on land. The nice restaurant down the street was booked solid for the next two hours, so we ended up at Ken’s 24 Hour House of Pancakes. After staring at a menu with a boggling list of hundreds of choices, we ended up both ordering humongous green salads (Well, Ken got the caesar salad with chicken, I got the chef’s salad). Then back to the boat for lots and lots of sleep.

I’ve got a few days here in Hilo and I’m going to try to change my flights around to allow me a couple of days in Honolulu as well. Then it is back to the Bay Area for a day, and then two weeks in New York, followed by a wedding in Boulder, CO. I might be back in the Bay Area in mid- to late-June. If the job market still looks bleak, I might do a road trip and try to catch up with many good friends who I haven’t seen in way too long. Places on the itinerary would be: Madison WI, Buffalo NY, Derry NH, Boston MA, New Haven CT, New York NY, Fords NJ, Baltimore MD, Washington DC, St Louis MO, and Boynton Beach FL.