{"id":1436,"date":"2012-06-12T11:38:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T19:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.wordpress.com\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2012-06-12T11:38:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T19:38:17","slug":"roving-daydreams-juneau-06102012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=1436","title":{"rendered":"Roving Daydreams \u2013 Juneau \u2013 [06\/10\/2012]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I have been a rover
\nI have walked alone
\nHiked a hundred highways
\nnever found a home
\nStill in all I\u2019m happy
\nThe reason is you see\u2026once in a while, along the way
\nLife\u2019s been good to me\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Every so often I look back at the last few years and I realize just how good life has <\/em>been. At barely thirty years old I\u2019ve seen things and done things that most people don\u2019t get to see in a lifetime. I\u2019ve acquired quite an amazing scrapbook of memories really. And not just from my time on ships, remember too that I lived inland for two years, when I was in England. Hard to imagine isn\u2019t it, me, who is so very attached to the sea, living away from it for two years.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I look out my office window and am struck with a sense of wonder that I am actually here, that this is actually my life. I look out at the sunset stretching from horizon to horizon as we once again motor our way toward Alaska, and I wonder when this became normal for me. When this became my day to day existence \u2013 so much so that I actually have to remind myself to look at it once in a while, instead of just getting up and going to work like any other girl. I see the world, but dream of going places I haven\u2019t seen, mostly inland these days, and sometimes as mundane as Florida (no I have never been to Florida, not really, passing through a place on debark day hardly counts), sometimes as exotic as Vienna\u2026Vienna is a big one for me, so is New Orleans.<\/p>\n

In some ways the Alaska run makes me more feel more adrift than my contracts on the flagship. I think a great portion of it is because it is<\/em> so repetitive. On the long cruises you have the prospect of 100 extravagant ports to distract you \u2013 even if you\u2019ve been to Hong Kong four times before it\u2019s no less incredible, even if you\u2019ve walked the Valley of the Kings twice it\u2019s no less breath-taking (and I mean that literally, considering the heat level at that particular spot). With Alaska, you drift back and forth across the same three ports \u2013 four if you count turn around \u2013 week after week, day after day, and all that changes dramatically is the ever-shifting flow of passengers around you.<\/p>\n

That said, Alaska has a charm to it that\u2019s difficult to describe. Life on the flagship is an insane over-crush of energy, you feel guilty if you so much as catch a cold, I may love being part of the GWV team, and I wouldn\u2019t change that for the world (at least not yet), but I just as often look forward to coming back to my summer ships, where I can sit and read a book in the evenings and listen to the solo guitarist ease his way through Hallelujah<\/em> or lose myself in hours long conversation (about theatre college of all things, it\u2019s actually been\u2026a long time since I discussed my time at HTS with anyone) with my big brother over the best<\/em> pizza (excluding, always, the homemade kind) in the world, without worrying about being misinterpreted or judged.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it\u2019s because my career as a ship-girl started<\/em> in Alaska \u2013 what seems like a very long time ago these days \u2013 that I always feel slightly more centered when I come back here.<\/p>\n

Still in all, I\u2019m happy\u2026the reason is you see\u2026once in a while along the way\u2026life is good to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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