From Rod on BCC Iduna
05 October 2008 | Mission Bay San Diego
Virginia Cross
Dear Richard & Virginia:
On behalf of the Bristol Channel Cutter and Falmouth Cutter website, thank you for your support.
I am thrilled for you to head south into Mexico then beyond the distant horizon. Sometimes I dream of such voyages. You two are doing it. Perhaps you will cross paths with Greg and Kay on Little Wing.
"What does a person need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat, and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activitiy that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense. And we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idocy of the charade.
The years thunder by. The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie chaked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.
Where, then, lies the answer? In choice. Which shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?"
Sterling Hayden
Fair Winds Mandy, Fair Winds and Thank You,
Rod