Waves are smaller today and especially longer so my life aboard is much more easier. Small squalls have kept annoying me all day with their strong winds, crosswinds and headwinds but without shedding a single drop of rain … so I have kept busy adjusting the sails and correcting Guppy’s course. We have 780 nautical miles still to go if we keep at our current speed and we should be in Sint Maarten on January 21st. But I don’t reallyrealize that I have circumnavigated the whole globe and a little more… I am thinking that I lived this sailing, I am thinking that this dream is real but soon to be just memory, I am thinking that what I dreamed of doing and cherished when I was eight years old is almost over, I am thinking …

Laura