Captain and First Mate

So we are back to just a Captain and First Mate on board SEGWUN. Our guests have packed up all their things, which seem to have grown to almost double during their seven months on board, and are headed to San Cristobal by ferry where they will board their first of many flights to get back home to Denmark. Their cheap tickets take them home on a bit of a milk run via Guayaquil, Madrid, London and finally Copenhagen.

We have been together with Anna and Christian since they landed in Toronto at the end of July having already spent a month of touring the Western United States. We traveled to Panama together and explored the many islands on both coasts, traversed the canal and sailed South to Salinas, Ecuador before setting off to Galapagos. We have celebrated birthdays and Christmas together and last night's Easter celebration marked the end of their tour of duty on SY SEGWUN with a nontraditional dinner of sushi here in Santa Cruz.

They are going home brown as nuts with sun-streaked hair as evidence of their time in South America, but this will soon fade after a few months back home. However the hours of videos and thousands of photos they have taken will be a more permanent record of their adventures for the years to come. But now they have to focus on career and school. Anna graduated with her Nursing degree last Spring and has sent off applications for positions in hospitals and Christian graduated as an electrical engineer but will be returning to the world of academia to pursue his Master's degree choosing to study in Odense, Denmark. After this long break they should be ready to face the next chapter of their lives.

We will look back fondly at our time together as Jens and I continue to cruise the world, happy in the thought that we don't need to head back to work any time soon.