I traded email with our friends on Ceilydh today. They're five days in from their departure from La Cruz, Mexico. Thinking about where they are in the journey, I couldn't help reliving the experiences from ours from last year. I remember this part of the passage really well...and it makes me smile!
This is going to sound nuts to some, but the phases of a big passage like this- about three weeks- is kind of like the major phases of pregnancy. Ceilydh is in the second trimester now. During the first trimester, you often feel a little icky, and you're settling- physically and emotionally- into a whole new life. By the third trimester, you're a little over the experience and kinda ready to be done. But the second trimester? It's spectacular. You're embracing the adventure, immersed in a whole new life. You're feeling good, and excited about every new thing that happens. It's truly like one natural high after another.
I generally loved being pregnant, but I never felt better (at ANY time in life, not just my pregnancies) than during the second trimester. And in the same crazy way, I deeply loved the middle chunk of the big passage... embraced it 150%, and wanted it to go on forever.
Here's a short list of some of friends who are blogging updates on their passage: check the rolls on their blogs, too, for even more of the 2011 fleet.
Ceilydh
Moondance
Evergreen
Whatcha Gonna Do
Don Quixote

Gorgeous rainbow, somewhere during our Pacific passage- April 2010