South Carolina

I did make it safely to South Carolina with minor delays. I'm overjoyed to say that I didn't make the same first impression as the one 2 years ago (when I first started with American Cruise Lines) Refer to post "2007 June, A Trip to Bangor Maine" for more details.

Thankfully that's not the story I'm remembered by, but it seems as though I've gone down in ACL history as "The girl who changed the light bulb in the middle of the night." I don't know, I guess that's not a bad reputation to have. Ha

I love sailing (in the blue ocean), but brown river water isn't much for excitement. I also love sleep, and the two simply do not go hand-in-hand. Maybe if I weren't on the 0000-0400 watch as I write this, I would say I liked to sail more. But at this point, sleep is way more important to me than any amount of adventure... Remind me of this when I consider running off to get another job at sea again...

Being an officer is much to stressful (in my opinion) for enjoyment and I'm not much for being just a regular deckhand with no authority. Plus, I don't even like being a helmsman anymore. The first 200 times may have been exciting, but now, I find it actually rather boring... I'm kind of tired of doing a mans job. You know, I think I'd really like to be an esthetician.

Sleep is about to take over now, and thankfully my watch has nearly reached it's end. I'm going to go get some sleep for the night, but I'll be getting a call in about an hour and it's time to get up again to cast off lines. 1 down and only 83 days left to go. All this for Australia, I hope it's worth it.