Come sail away...come sail away...come sail a-way with me.

Hello and welcome to my blog site. I am so excited to share this journey with you. As the case with many of my travel adventures I'm sure this one will be filled with funny stories and antidotes. For those of you that virtually joined me in Switzerland last summer - you know what you're in for! Eh- should be a good way to kill some time during your day. Get ready to set sail on your vicarious voyage!

To explain...
This semester I have the opportunity to live and work on a ship that is going to (literally) sail around the world. I'm ever so excited, yet there are a lot of anxieties as well. Most of my concerns are in response to recent world affairs and being on a boat for 100 days with 650 college students. If interested you can read more about the program and get ship updates on www.semesteratsea.com.

This blog will take you along as we venture from San Diego to Mexico, Hawaii, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Myanmar, India, Turkey, Egypt, Spain and then "home" to Ft. Lauderdale.

Please check back often as I will do my best to keep current photos and posts on here. I'll begin with some of the prep stuff this month and update until December. Communication on board will be very limited so this is about all I'll be able to do with my limited internet access, although I will respond to e-mails as soon as I can. There is phone access on the ship, but it will cost me about $1.50 a minute to call here and you about $4.00 a minute to call there, so I'm guessing that I won't be talking to any of you from late August until December. I'm not one to beg for e-mails, but PLEASE keep me up-to-date on your lives. I'm going to miss you all a lot and will look forward to letters from home. I'll be eager to hear from you.

Catch you on the portside.