The expedition is over and the Bokeh Maru and I returned home a little worse for wear. It was an eventful journey and sadly I have to relate that I lost the majority of my crew to mishap and mayhem of various kinds along the way, in fact all of them, down to the very last man. I’ll get into those events as I post the trips highlights.

One of the problems we encountered was getting the daily journal out due to technological issues that plagued us the entire trip. We had access to Wi-Fi which was the good news, but the bad news was it didn’t work well enough to post daily as I had hoped to do. The country up north was filled with bandwidth hogs who would wait until I was ready to post and then they would all jump on at the same time and the ether would fill up with their emails about” Be sure to walk the dog while we’re gone other wise he will crap in the laundry room.” and “Could you send me 1100.00 dollars there’s a really cool antique anvil that Buffalo Bill signed that I want to ship home UPS and they want 1100.00 to do it, and I spent my travel money on beer in Jackson.” and “Can you check, I don’t think I turned off the water that was filling the hot tub in the basement before I left.” and other messages that were even less interesting than these. Anyway it took so long to post the second installment that I decided to wait until I got back and post them then. So I will. Over the next few days I’ll get them out one at a time.

My email has piled up and I’ll try to get back to all of you who wrote. But first, To “Miss Lonely in Fallujah”, Yes Big Lemon is married and No, an electric toothbrush won’t help.

So there you are. For better or worse we’re back.