THE END - The saga that no one cares about...

... because who even reads this nonsense blog? However, I felt a need to finish what I started, even if it may be almost half year since my last entry. I was actually reading through it for reminiscing purposes, and realized how poor my English writing skills are. I feel a need to defend myself, just in case there is some random reader out there. In the beginning a blog seemed like a good idea, especially to touch base with the fam and friends. But after a few weeks and hardly a minute to sit down every day to write, the blog got pretty messy. Sometimes days would pass by before I had the chance to write , mostly because I chose to semi-permanently attach myself to the outer deck sunshine bar after working hours. No, but really, there was always something I needed to do or somewhere I needed to be and I couldn’t get to the computer to write. Plus! So many things were going on once I finally did get to sit down in front of the computer it was hard to choose what to blog about. This is why my writing may seem all jumbled and messy, blah blah blah. Whatever. So back to my saga – WHY would my blog stop at June 28th if the ship was still going until mid-July? Well, I wrote entries for all the missing days, and stored them on my USB stick. I was going to download them onto my blog site once I got to the next port (internet was extreeeemely expensive and slooooow on the ship so I only updated my blog site when on land) but then one day when I plugged my stick into the classroom computer all my files got deleted. ALL of them. Even the really important ones (unlike my blog entries). So I gave up. I was finished blogging, finito. No way was I going to sit down and write everything again. Oh, yeah, and I guess the virus that deleted the files snuck its way into my USB stick and when I plugged it into my own personal laptop it spread and caused my Toshiba Dynabook to break down for the third time in 3 years (fyi – never buy a Toshiba.)
Sooooooooooooo, that is why my PEACEBOAT story finishes at the end of June. In July the boat sailed to Alaska and through the fiords. It was the first time for me to see glaciers, and one early evening I saw at least 50+ humpback whales as I was hanging with the captain in the bridge. I had a lot of stories, but I can’t really remember them all, nor do I have the time and patience to actually write them all down, again. This one entry is getting pretty long as is. So I guess this is the end of my PEACEBOAT blog, for now. Who knows, maybe I’ll decide to ride again. Three times a charm, am I right?!