All night and today we had good wind and the shining sun made for a very hot day today. But the worst of the doldrums is now behind us. It is not so for ‘Winddancer’ a boat from New Zealand that left Cape Town one week after me and is sailing 950 nautical miles behind in the Trade Winds of the South Atlantic Ocean. It is the only yacht that I keep in touch with via SSB radio which is plenty for me. I want to keep enjoying the quiet and peace at sea as much I can before everything changes in about 12 days. This time upon arrival I won’t have two days to adjust to life ashore like I could in Durban. Still I am looking forward to my arrival and officially end my journey even though I feel like I already accomplished what I had set out to do a long time ago. I have learned very much about myself along the way and I also have learned very much from all the different places and the many different people that I came in contact with in so many different countries. I have learned from The Pacific Ocean and its islands I had only seen in my dreams. I have learned from the Indian Ocean which snapped me out of my world of dreams showing me bad weather, storms, calm winds and what a long crossing is. And so too I am learning from the South Atlantic Ocean with its soft Trade Winds and smooth sailing that lets me look back in time and assimilate all the wonderful experiences I had going around the world. But the time just went by too fast. It caught up to Guppy and everything will abruptly change soon as we will come under the media limelight… I am so glad that I still have 12 more days on the Atlantic Ocean before that time comes because that part never appeared in any of my dreams…

Laura