25-26 July
The last few days have passed between the boat and the beautiful city of Vancouver. The city obeys the rule of every modern big metropole: 2 million people, down-town skyscrapers and sweet homes in the periphery. Its special charactaristic is that it lies in the borders of east and west. If Japan is the country of the rising sun, surely Vancouver is the city of the setting sun. Many nationalities live here, mainly asians, except the native canadians. Spread over a vast area, having canals, rivers, sea and mountains it is called "North Hollywood" as it is the largest movie production site after LA and NY.
The boat is being perfectly prepared. Every means of safety tools as well as plans, adequate quantities of water, food and gas twice as much as it would be needed and charts, maps and navigation devices leave us a little space to move. The boat is our world: the cabin is our home and the deck is our nature. As fewer words are used to describe the feeling the better you will understand how it is. If I would try to give a taste: Simplicity is our way of living.
Here, far beyond the hurdles of the conventional life the real truth is to be found. Even I have the bare minimum of goods I feel I have great energy. It is not a feeling, it is a fact. I can judge the everyday life objectively, I can look directly into the meaning of the words and generaly I feel free.
We will depart sometime in the next week and I will stop updating this blog until I find an internet connection in Mexico. We even will not have electric power to keep this electronic diary. But I will keep a hand-writen one and I will publish it afterwards. From now on: every update will not be shown in schedules times.
The last few days have passed between the boat and the beautiful city of Vancouver. The city obeys the rule of every modern big metropole: 2 million people, down-town skyscrapers and sweet homes in the periphery. Its special charactaristic is that it lies in the borders of east and west. If Japan is the country of the rising sun, surely Vancouver is the city of the setting sun. Many nationalities live here, mainly asians, except the native canadians. Spread over a vast area, having canals, rivers, sea and mountains it is called "North Hollywood" as it is the largest movie production site after LA and NY.
The boat is being perfectly prepared. Every means of safety tools as well as plans, adequate quantities of water, food and gas twice as much as it would be needed and charts, maps and navigation devices leave us a little space to move. The boat is our world: the cabin is our home and the deck is our nature. As fewer words are used to describe the feeling the better you will understand how it is. If I would try to give a taste: Simplicity is our way of living.
Here, far beyond the hurdles of the conventional life the real truth is to be found. Even I have the bare minimum of goods I feel I have great energy. It is not a feeling, it is a fact. I can judge the everyday life objectively, I can look directly into the meaning of the words and generaly I feel free.
We will depart sometime in the next week and I will stop updating this blog until I find an internet connection in Mexico. We even will not have electric power to keep this electronic diary. But I will keep a hand-writen one and I will publish it afterwards. From now on: every update will not be shown in schedules times.
Take a lot of pictures!
ReplyDeleteMy second command i hope you remember.....
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