Clouds Form Over Land

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Clouds Form Over Land has been arriving in inboxes for one whole year! This effort started as an empty bucket and has grown to nearly 300 readers. Thank you for being here. I’m in the home stretch of moving onto land. A time filled with U-Hauls, cardboard, measuring tapes, sweat, friends, and family. The past couple of weeks have been a total immersion of what’s right in front of me. I sat down to write this earlier today, threw in the towel, and went for a hike along the James River.

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This is Clouds Form Over Land, weekly writing about life at sea and going ashore. There are almost no lifeforms that live on the surface of the ocean. Those that do are an exuberant bunch (sailors, dolphins, flying fish, etc), thriving in that liminal space, at home in the everchanging boundary of air and water. Living on a sailboat and moving with the weather requires one to be as easy-going and quick-moving as the sea itself.

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This is Clouds Form Over Land, weekly writing about life at sea and going ashore. We arrived in mid-June after a two-week sprint from Charleston, South Carolina, a little over two years after sailing west under the Golden Gate Bridge and into the unknown. Despite chipping away at this goal at the pace of five miles per hour, the enormity of what we’ve done is still sinking in as I get my bearings.

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This is Clouds Form Over Land, weekly writing about life at sea and going ashore. Last Monday, we woke up in Charleston, South Carolina, and prepared to head offshore for our final ocean passage of this 9000 sailing trip. We have left countless docks and the leaving has become a familiar routine. Fill the water tank, deposit our trash, check the engine oils, sneak in a hot shower, walk on land, unplug the shore power cable, and the sometimes large category of tasks we call “general tidying”.

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