Hilton Head Island: flying

Tomorrow Carol and I start flights to the Azores, the first of which takes us to Newark where we have a very long layover, departing just before midnight for Ponta Delgada on San Miguel Island where we will arrive Tuesday morning.  We will be in the Azores for a week and then take two days to return to Hilton Head Island, having to spend a night in Newark at an airport hotel.

The trip is to celebrate Carol’s retirement and our 30th wedding anniversary.  Carol has asked that this time be just for us and I agree, so I will not be posting or answering emails between August 12 and August 20 or later.  As you know I cut myself off completely when I go to sea and this is not much different.

We sailed to the Azores from Boston in THE HAWKE OF TUONELA in 2001 and I had sailed there earlier with Jill on a 4,000 mile passage north from St. Helena in RESURGAM in 1987 or 88.  They are one of three places liked by everyone I know who has been there.  The other two are Ireland, which I have never visited, and New Zealand.  I hope they have not changed too much.

In the unlikely event you suffer Webb Chiles withdrawal symptoms, you can get a fix at

https://www.inthepresentsea.com/the_actual_site/webbchiles.html

I leave you with a poem by Wang Wei, 701-761, and wish you  joy.