Things I Won't Be Thinking Of

I plan on being busy for the next three weeks or so, not thinking about Jake’s trip.

He’s in Boston as I write this, where he’ll leave for Miami tomorrow morning. The following day, he flies down to Ecuador, then it’s off to spend the next few weeks out in the vast expanse of the Pacific, basically floating on a cork.

If you want to see where he’s hopefully going, and if you have Google Earth, you can paste these coordinates into the search, zoom out and look around: 0.6667° S, 90.5500° W

Here's a time-lapse video tour of the boat he’ll be floating on:




Here's a link to a live video(s) stream of whatever is going on at the moment. Sometimes, when I've worked up the courage to look at the video, it’ only showing the view off the back of the boat- staring out over the vast empty stretches of barren ocean.

Right now, however, there's a view from the submersible-exploring hydrothermal vents along the ocean floor. I can’t help but notice that, in the corner of the screen, it says the submersible is at a depth of 8,518 feet- which means that whomever is in the boat above, has a long way to go before their feet would be on solid ground.

I look forward to hearing all about Jake’s trip when he returns in three weeks- or I would if I were going to be thinking about it. I'll also look forward to finally being able to exhale.