"HK" wrote in message
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You still cannot think in the abstract, eh, s.f.b.?

Sailing around on a relatively small body of water, like Chesapeake Bay,
was fun for me when we did it. Taking a slow trawler barge to get to Costa
Rica would not be fun for me, now or back then. I wanted to get to C.R. so
I could enjoy my time off *there*, not waste my off getting there. And, as
I have posted many times, "to each his own."

With a couple of breaks, this summer one of my clients will want me to
attend a week-long meeting in Geneva. It's very tentative at the moment,
but...I hope to fly to London, grab the Eurostar to Paris, and then the
Lyria TGV to Geneva. On the way back, we'll rent a car so we can see some
more of Switzerland and a decent part of France. High speed planes, high
speed trains, lower speed car... :)

You know, to each his own.



To me, that's something that hundreds of people do every week, basically the
same way.

Woopie.

Now, piloting a 49 foot boat to various ports with no specific time table
to adhere to is something I could warm up to very quickly, assuming I had
the skills and knowledge to do it.

Besides. You'd have to drag me kicking and screaming onto a commercial
airliner
now-a-days, first class, business or coach. The destination is spoiled by
the travel
getting there.

I fondly remember the sense of achievement and satisfaction I had after a
relatively
simple, (compared to what Wayne does) 1500 mile voyage on our boat. When I
docked in Jupiter FL and shut the engines down, I had a sense of having
accomplished something. You don't sit in a chair reading a book or
snoozing. You are navigating, weather watching, planning, checking the boat
mechanically, decision making and learning something.

Plus, the boat was comfortable.

That trip is still one of the best things I ever did in my life and I still
think about it often.

Eisboch