Travels

This is what I have traversed. Planet Earth. The only way that I will ever see her is through pictures such as this one, but boy isn't she beautiful? I can't believe that Pampero II was a speck on that surfaced while we sailed, that I was a speck on that surface. Not even a speck, so tiny am I when considering the mass of Earth.

I will give you a taste of what I did with my life. I left Australia in 1985 and returned in 1991. I spent 12 years of my life aboard a yacht named Pampero II. I loved Pampero dearly and I regularly visited her when she was still owned by my family even after we moved to land.

The twelve years amassed from when my brother, Damien, was born while we where living aboard the yacht—in 1981. We eventually traded the yacht for dry land in 1993, which adds up to 12 years. In case you are wondering, no it wasn't weird. It was my life. I knew no other. Living on land for me was weird.

I have ordered each country visited in order of visitation over alphabetical. For example, the first country that we visited outside of Australian control was the Maldives. Then Sri Lanka, then … and so on. Not alphabetical. I will give you a description of the places that we went to. It is a good thing that my mother kept journals for the entire 6 years that we were overseas. I can refer to them.

Onto the more interesting stuff. At the bottom of each country's page, there are a set of arrows. These are to navigate onto the next country or the previous one, in case you missed something.