the same sky

at sea
39° 06' 45" N
28° 06' 00" W
06.03.08
0620 UTC
S/Y Flying Cloud
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rats. genny jenny just found out her new headphones fail the *DIF test. and they were new. at least the ipod is still aboard.

exhausted. yet the coming sunrise has given me a strange second wind. as the first light appeared i suddenly thought of midori and my last morning watch. this time i will see the sun rise; though i stayed awake after watch for nearly a week on the last leg of the trip it was consistently overcast.

tonight's watch was not preceded with much manufacturing of Zs. this was decidedly less premium. legs are sore and perhaps tired from a /very/ long walk. ostensibly to see the caldiera, but maybe the walk was more about the walk than the caldiera. the knowledgeable deckhand from Tihama who i randomly met in the coffee place suggested that hitching up the road to the caldiera would work just great; except i am lousy at hitching, methinks. it turned out to be a lot more like watching cars go by in the wrong direction than hitching. and then, it was pretty grand anyhoo.

staying in a tent ~ the entire time i was in açores i was only on faial and mostly in horta ~ was not as super relaxing as i had planned. the camping spot wasn't an official camping spot and was inconveniently located. around a 20 minute walk from any facilities. no problem. no cooking, so i was pretty much a raw food eater. showers and laundry were also a 20 minute walk. maybe 25. olives, i think, are a perfect food. i like 'em. i even splurged and bought some faial cheese at one point. (ooo! cheese!) i probably wouldn't have done so if i knew what an euro is actually worth. i /am/ getting kind of curious. the camping version of staying in açores was rather cost effective though.

tom's 22 euro room was nice enough, and his 17 euro room was probably quite acceptable. i peeked in a 45 euro room abd though the view was magnificent, i'm told that the traffic noise is horrendous. i'd have to say in the 'we sell sleep' category 45 euro should get you a bit of soundproofing. i'd have to say that the tent by the sea was most triumphant in that regard, especially last night (actually, as i have not truly slept it's really the night before last~ yet it /see/s like last night). the swell was extra huge and extra loud. i admired it en route to my latenight snack on the hill with the stars. yeah.

this fine morning en route to collect a post coffee USB cable for to get my photos out of the toy camera, i was kidnapped and my holiday was quite suddenly at an end. since then, a hundred miles an hour in at least three directions. scrubbing, stuffing, tetris (in the sail locker, with random beverages-to-be-consumed-in-scandanavia, in the tool room), and a quick trip to café peter sport for a bite to eat before departure.

dolphins, phosphorescence, sea birds flying from ilha graciosa. we are sailing along the milky way toward cassiopoea, the special W constellation. Matthew claims that it's an upside down M. we're headed to the isle of wight, so there's that and it usually also reminds me of kelly woz who said, ' remember we are under the same sky.'