Travel without flying

            It has been a while since my last appearance on this page which wasn't caused directly by me. Such a decision to retract from writing, I made only because I faced covid-19.  Covid-19 after being around for one year still ravages outside the window and I thought perhaps it is time to give a new life and meaning to old forgotten things, namely to my abandoned travel blog.       Idea of writing a book was circling around my head for many years though low esteem in my writing skills and limited time by routine work wouldn't allow me to break the ice into initiation of putting down my reflections.      To achieve my goal of writing I quit my job which  generated the precious free time for drafting and the writing skills I somehow achieved with my traveling blog.      I am still far away to master the writing craft which wasn't anyway my final goal. I aimed ...

Wading through corona turmoil While being in Sri Lanka the entire crew, after a long debate where to sail next, decided that the first coming stop will be in Oman but guess what, after I applied and paid for my visa Oman officials announced that it closed the borders to prevent spreading of the coronavirus. After this completely unprepared action that limited considerably our next choice we decided to sail to Djibouti and as soon as we were preparing for departure the news broke with negative waves from Djibouti which alerted us of locking airports and closed the borders. Eventually we left Sri Lanka on a positive note with suspicion that coronavirus will ease the grip of the world and the borders will be open by the time we will arrive in Djibouti, after 3-4 weeks of sailing.       [1]      After roughly 24 hours of sailing we found ourselves in a non wind spot, with a flat surface comparable to a mirror that reflected sun in all the directio...

[1] Worldwide virus outbreak drill One could feel a prodigious scale game going on, from alarming news in distant places that never would reach or affect one directly to quickly stiffened with enforced governmental emergency surge in front of your eyes to unfold in a mature poisoned drama. Tension with periodic lockdowns could be felt as unrealistic war-like conditions which gave a feeling of playing a role in a life scene from an abysmal apocalyptic, lab escaped virus outbreak movie. It seems however that governments around the planet had a global real-life drill simulation, it appears that they have just tested their technical aptitudes and preparedness methods for a future global outbreak and to justify their action they marched under the cover of coronavirus outbreak because indeed it is the best opportunity to act without legislating laws and even with less interrogation for indictment from the public community.           [2] If the WHO's vi...

Chinese dictatorship concealed outbreak [1] I never seriously thought to mention or to make a valid conclusion in such an abruptly and still in unfolding stage of corona virus but corona here, corona there, corona everywhere, people panic, public institution are locked down borders are being closed and it seems that is time to acquit from most of the charges corona was blamed to. Following the events of corona virus outbreak gave an unprecedented traceable drama story of a global scenery, with a transparent and raw data in hand, separated from false assumption and conspiracy theories, it is possible to trace and locate not only the source of the virus but also what initial prerequisite were necessary for the virus to start a terror like journey in the people's untrained and fearful mind.  The source place was quite fast spotted to be Wuhan in China, though it was numerous time denied and annihilated by the authorities to present respiratory diseases of not big importance and...

Departure [1] Morning 7:30, slightly breezy in the harbour, the crew is still sleepy and with certain confusion are preparing the last things for leaving the mooring place in Sabang, Indonesia. Issues with electricity and lack of proper arrangement and guidance on the vessel are overweight by unusual willingness and drive to abandon that somehow unfortunate and inhospitable place.  With subtile delight and unknown expectation the team and sailing boat is taking course to Sri Lanka, sea journey relative to road or air is more time consuming and was testing abilities to adapt to an entrenched monohull boat exposed to seemingly desert, vast openness and unlocked water field.  Though the sailing boat is remarkably bigger than previous boats I sailed before, its insignificant impact on the ocean is fairly obvious. Rough waves, cast tirelessly the yacht from one side to another as it would be an origami boat left in the roaring rapids of gradient river which resulted almost...