March 24, 2006 - Isla Mujeres, Mexico
Cuban craft
Yes, this is a boat made out of an old fuel tank. It consists only of the bare essentials --hull, engine, rudder, mast, ladder-- and shows the lengths people will go to find a better life. I don't know what happens to the passengers when they are found, but boats like this (and worse) regularly show up at the Isla Mujeres port captain's dock. This boat was aptly named El Nazareno - I suppose you rely on faith alone when you try to cross the Gulf Stream in a vessel like this.
posted by Mahi at 9:32 AM
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March 22, 2006 - Isla Mujeres, Mexico
Flying by
I read somewhere that the earth rotates at a speed of 1000 miles per hour. The way we physically (don't) perceive this can be compared to being a passenger sitting still inside a moving car, while the landscape that seems to fly by us consists of the alternating sun, moon and stars. We feel like we're stationary rather than moving at the speed of the vehicle, only our ride on vehicle earth is much smoother than your average trip inside a noisy, bumpy car. When I think of the earthquakes, tidal waves, storms and other natural phenomena that occur under and over our proverbial hood, I'm not so sure about that, but this is what I read...
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I started this journal a year ago today.
Yesterday the stretch of daytime landscape we collectively travelled was once again equal in length to our nighttime passage. The spring equinox has come and gone for the 35th time since I first caught my ride on this planet, and the speed of time is dawning on me a little more with each rotation around the sun. Though I've had quite the stormy year, I feel like I wrote that first journal entry just yesterday. Man, are we ever going fast.
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