Refueling
(Written yesterday afternoon…) We arrived this morning just before dawn at Las Palms, in the Canary Islands, for a brief refueling stop, and just as I began writing this we began to depart. No one has been off the ship: it's in fact the next-to-last day for a lot of courses, with many having exams or last preparations for exams, so folks are busy. And tired, and emotional ,or getting ready to be emotional, because we are getting near the voyage's end. There is still much ahead of us, though—one of our most exciting stops, perhaps, in a couple of days (Morocco), then an intense three days before arrival in the UK. So it behooves us all to summon what energy we have. We are picking up speed just now, the yachts and hotels passing my office window more quickly, and that seems a good image for the state of the voyage.
