Trip News and Notes Continued...
Apr
17
Mahalo and Aloha to Kate — and an Update
Posted by Keith on April 17, 2007 at 11:48 am | 2 Comments
Kate Chapman, our intrepid cook and website assistant, has elected to resign as crew and to return to Seattle from Hawaii. We greatly appreciated her hard work and great cooking, and we wish her every success back home. Aloha and Mahalo, Kate!
We still hope to depart from Hawaii for Majuro in the Marshall Islands this Sunday, or within a day or to thereafter. We are delaying our departure slightly from Hawaii because once we leave here, our ability to find parts locally, or to easily resolve minor technical issues will be greatly reduced.
Our Ship, The Global Adventure, has performed splendidly; as has our KVH communications gear. We simply wish to add a few bells and whistles, primarily to our communications capabilities, before we depart Honolulu.
Also, today I will be catching a “red eye” back to Phoenix to squeeze in a two-day visit with my family, and to take care of some business. Captain Wolf and First Mate Rip will be diligently working on the ship in my absence. I will return Friday afternoon. We will broadcast our Sunday show from the beautiful Hawaii Yacht Club in Honolulu. This past week’s show was broadcast from the also-beautiful Halekulani Hotel on Waikiki.
Our thanks to both facilities for their splendid hospitality.
Be sure to catch our Hawaii photos in the Photo Gallery Section of this site, that I’ll be posting in a moment.
–Keith
Apr
14
Safe and Sound At the Hawaii Yacht Club in Honolulu
Posted by Keith on April 14, 2007 at 1:17 pm | 4 Comments
Just wanted everyone to know that we did indeed arrive safely in Honolulu yesterday afternoon. Enjoyed a nice celebratory dinner at the Chart House last night. We are docked right next to the Hawaii Yacht Club’s main club house, and last night the band played until midnight.
However, I must confess that I heard nothing after 9 PM Hawaii time, having fallen asleep, for the first time in 12 days, while my bed was not moving!
The Hawaii Yacht Club is everything a club of this sort should be. The staff and members here are just wonderful; and it’s ideal location right next to Waikiki beach makes it one of the most unique facilities in the world.
Today we are cleaning the boat, making lists of various matters that must be attended to, and generally getting organized. Tomorrow, I will broadcast the radio show from The Halekulani Hotel — and, yes, taking the rest of the day off.
–Keith
Apr
13
Hawaii Snapshot
Posted by Keith on April 13, 2007 at 7:03 am | 1 Comment
The Aloha State is home to about 1,300,000 people — less than 40 percent as many people as live in the greater Phoenix ( Maricopa County ) area. Hawaii extends across the Pacific for 1,523 miles and contains eight main islands, and many islets. Two years ago President Bush declared Hawaii’s outlying areas a protected national preserve – the largest in the United States .
First settled by Polynesians between A.D. 300 and 600, and physically closer to Pacific locations such as the Marshall Islands than to the mainland, today only 9.4% of Hawaii’s population is entirely Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. Surprisingly, 41 percent of the population is of Asian descent.
Sugarcane (Did someone say “ethanol”?), pineapples, and flowers and nursery products are its chief products, along with coffee, bananas and macadamia nuts. But tourism, by far, is Hawaii’s largest industry.
More than 900,000 people live in Honolulu County alone. About a third of those folks live in the City of Honolulu ,
One of the great books about Hawaii is actually a novel by the same name: James Michener’s Hawaii. In it, Michener devotes the first 400 truly wonderful pages describing how titanic volcanic forces thrust Hawaii from the Pacific, and how it developed soil, flora and fauna. He also tells the story of the profound role Christian missionaries from Maine played in the state’s history.
Hawaii became a U.S. territory in 1900, and, along with Alaska , became a state in 1959. The state’s deep ties to the mainland were sealed on December 7, 1941 – the “Day of Infamy” – when the U.S. fleet was attacked at Pearl Harbor. The U.S.S. Arizona still lies just beneath the surface there, now part of the Pearl Harbor Memorial, as a grim reminder of the sacrifice made by America’s “Greatest Generation” – including many Hawaiians.
–Keith
Apr
10
The Trades and Planet Earth
Posted by Keith on April 10, 2007 at 1:17 pm | 1 Comment
April 10, 2007
24.16N // 146.08W
661 Miles Northwest of Hawaii
Late Easter evening we reached The Trades, and we’ve been on a ride ever since.
Since mariners first set sail, the trades have propelled them to new worlds and home again. Across the globe these winds and currents move relentlessly east to west from south of about latitude 25N, and from north of about latitude 25S, almost to the Equator where, on either side of it, in an area known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), both wilt into hot, sticky doldrums, above a weak, opposing west-east current.
Apr
2
We’re On Our Way!
Posted by Keith on April 2, 2007 at 1:40 pm | 2 Comments
About 90 miles SW of San Diego
01:45 MST
Underway
It’s official! We are now well underway for our first stop, Hawaii!
I’m on graveyard watch – the midnight to 0300 shift. Seas are lumpy with occasional waves over the bow, but we expect this to pass by later today.
Mar
30
The Lull Before the (figurative) Storm
Posted by Keith on March 30, 2007 at 1:04 pm | 3 Comments
12:53 PM, Scottsdale, AZ
The house is silent. Lynn has gone to pick up the boys at school. In an hour we will depart for Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. From there we will fly to San Diego. On Saturday we’ll check final arrangements, say our final goodbyes, and — with luck — on Sunday, as our radio show ends toward 11 AM — the crew and I will finally — finally — depart for Hawaii, on the first leg of our open-ended world journey.
Captain Wolf says we might have a weather delay of up to twelve hours. If we do, we do. That’s why we pay a weather routing service. But we’ll be shoving off soon enough. The ship is ready to go.
It is a perfectly beautiful day here in Scottsdale. Perfect weather. Blue skies. I’m soaking in these final moments at home. The silence is deafening. I already miss my family!
I’ll return frequently, but it will all be different when I do. The trip will be underway, our wonderful Nordhavn 55 will be somewhere on the far side of the world, and our time together as a family will be particularly precious.
When I was a small boy, my father dreamed of owning a boat. He spent countless hours looking at literature and dreaming of the day he might take to sea.
He never bought a boat. He never went to sea. He’s gone now, along with my mother.
This trip is about all the dreams I’ve had since then.
But it’s also for him.
–Keith
Mar
13
One-Armed Wall-Paper Hangers
Posted by Keith on March 13, 2007 at 7:03 pm | 3 Comments
SCOTTSDALE, AZ
I love it when a plan comes together! But time is running short! As we prepare for our April 1 departure from San Diego, we are busier than a bunch of one-armed paper hangers. Each member of the Global Adventure Read more
Mar
13
The Global Adventure Embarks April 1!
Posted by Keith on March 13, 2007 at 3:51 pm | 2 Comments
The following news release was sent through wire services nationally today, and throughout Arizona:
PHOENIX (March 13, 2007) – Keith DeGreen’s ship, The Global Adventure, begins a unique around-the-world journey April 1.
Attorney and CFP® DeGreen is a well known Arizona financial advisor and radio talk-show host, who recently sold his firm, Read more
Feb
26
The Global Adventure Makes History
Posted by Keith on February 26, 2007 at 8:23 pm | 1 Comment
First Offshore Regularly-Scheduled Broadcast
From a Private Ship at Sea!
January 25, 2007 – In Mexican Waters 15 Miles Southeast of San Diego
Precisely as scheduled, from 8-11 AM, on Sunday, February 25, 2007, Keith and crew successfully broadcast The Keith DeGreen Global Adventure Radio Show to Arizona’s most popular talk radio station – NewsTalk 550 – KFYI while 15 miles offshore!
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Jan
11
Why (Take This Trip)?
Posted by admin on January 11, 2007 at 8:30 pm | Leave a Comment
At Home In Scottsdale, Arizona
My wonderful wife Lynn will be noticeably absent from our planned voyage. She will not be aboard The Global Adventure when we depart. Neither will any of my children or grandchildren.
Leaving without them will be, without a doubt, the most difficult part of this voyage. Truth be told, it will be terribly difficult.
I must therefore ask the question: Why leave at all?
It’s a complex question; and although at first blush my decision to depart without them may seem selfish, I think — I sincerely hope — that the journey will in fact draw us together in ways we might never have dreamed possible.
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