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Lantau Island, one of our favourite destinations near Hong Kong. could circumnavigate single- handedly A petite, vibrant woman, olive
this watery globe in an oyster boat skinned, with eyes flashing brown
chocolate truffle, my first thought miles and a bit to New Zealand. So with a cheap tin clock, and the under a canopy of jet-black hair.
was, had I been grossly underpaid much for my timid plan to stick minute hand missing as well, then Perhaps a little touch of Iroquois
for the three years I worked there? within eyeshot of the coast and this little hop across the longitudes from past generations. The eldest
And with a quick tally of dollars, yes I sail out of range of bazooka fire should be a cakewalk. of 12 children when large families
would be able to buy a yacht after all. from war-torn Vietnam, to avoid Nicole, a plucky four-year-old were encouraged and contraception
I then had to wait patiently the fleeing boat people coveting a more Marcel, and I had flown to Hong discouraged in a Catholic Québéc.
yacht’s construction in the ‘Fragrant seaworthy vessel than their own. Kong from Vancouver after a long Nicole still backpacks to the four
Harbour’, half a world away where There were no satellites orbiting drive from Montréal where we corners of the globe to this day.
I would have to learn quickly the the globe to provide affordable course had lived for the past four years. I Skyscrapers reached out to us on
art of blue water sailing. To chart a plotting to seafaring backpackers. met Nicole in Greece seven years either side as we flew into the city
passage across 600 nautical miles of No shore to heave into to ask before. A gutsy French Canadian, of Hong Kong. Plunging through
open water and then another 5000 someone the way. If Joshua Slocum and an ideal travelling companion. a narrow corridor towards the