The stop in Cape Town is still costing us big time as we cannot get going SE on great circle route due to a high pressure to our south. The wind gods are on holiday somewhere. If you see them ask them to send us some westerlies please.
Today is a huge day.
5 years ago today a big bird, a distant cousin of the giant wandering albatross delivered a very special gift to my wife Molly, our son Max and me. All I know is that it was big, white, elegant and swift and when it came to Maine, Beau Thomas Carruthers Lewis arrived. It had been a snowy night, all was quiet in the woods of Maine, the barometer had been slowing falling. It was impossible flying weather for all but the mightiest of birds, but just as the rising sun lightened and brightened the eastern horizons, the smoking waters of Penobscot Bay were seen through the misty snowflakes and in my arms was a beautiful boy. Wow, a big boy at 5 kilos plus.