Lots of dried food stored aft..

No we aren’t drinking out here… but I always find that the day after a halfway party everyone is on a downer because they realise they have to do what they have done all over again. I have taught myself to mentally deal with it in a different way. For a start I see this trip as two seperate trips. The one from south to north and the one from west to east. If you look at it in that way then the day after the half way party you are starting a new trip which ends in getting home. The first part of the west east trip is a few days of motoring which we have now been doing for 36 hours so far. The second part is a reach home in cold wet conditions ending in the sight of the golden gate bridge.

Tonight we are jazzing up the rice a roni with a can of chicken breast and a jar of artichoke hearts. Without a refridgerator it gets hard to keep the dried starchy food interesting. Everyone starts to miss fresh veg even if they aren’t that big of a veg fan on land. I have my standard things that I crave it is always fresh sqeezed OJ, a chocolate milkshake, ice cream and a fillet mignon steak meal from Izzy’s!

Yesterday was a day of housekeeping we cleaned out the head, the cooler box and had a shower each cleaning our hair etc. I have learnt over the last 19 years of offshore how to have a complete bath using a liter of water including shaving my legs, under the arms and shampoo and conditioning of hair. I don’t do the salt water thing as I really do hate getting salt water on me. Charlie blissfully filled up several buckets with salt water and poured it over himself just like Olivier at the end of the race. Luke is being a typical student and is not having a shower and Ed is going for the fresh water in a bucket shaving his face type.

BTW Ed’s ETA is 10th at 10:12pm to be exact. So it looks like I am the pessimistic one 🙂 either that or realistic having spent many years taking our ETA and then adding 12 hours to it and invariably it works out.

Our position is 37 57N 142 26W only 20 degrees to go to the east. Still not halfway east though as Hawaii is at 157W and SF is at 122W.