The Beauty of the Flute

I am a flute player.  I have always loved the sound of this instrument and the music written for it.  Here we have the Berklee College of Music playing in Symphony Hall Boston.  The piece is the Oscar winning music for The Lord of the Rings by Howard Shore.

Very Intense and Interesting Time

The work has been intense - both the project work and the "school" work.  To say that this has been interesting would be an understatement.  I love the academy and I love the fact that people with inquiring minds work so hard doing the things they do.  I hope to make a small contribution to the group in my own small way.  But the project work is really fun and doing so as my own company - something I haven't done for almost 20 years - is frightening and yet wonderful.  It's the ting and the yang thing.

First Week Back

What a crazy week.  Fabulous connection to colleagues and possibilities of doing work in a completely new way.  Plus, finishing courses for PhD.  Last 3 on deck with:

Construction Engineering

Decision Support Research Methods

Design and Analysis of Construction Operations

Objective: New Zealand

So we draw closer to the time we will decide to take to the sea and travel.  There are numerous things to plan over the next several years: everything from what we finally will need to be prepared, provisioning, insurance, sails, etc.  But here is the route we have in mind:

Basically From The Strait of Juan de Fuca to

Cabo San Lucas... (stopping along the way - San Francisco and San Diego)

...Then from Cabo to the Marquesas, on to Tahiti and

Moorea, then American Samoa and Samoa,

then the Tongan Archipelago, then Aukland, New Zealand.

New Year

Best wishes for 2014 to all from the crew of S/V Terratima