Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

As is quite obvious if you've read my page for any time, as much as I've been very successful in “Western society” in all its complexity, I really long for a simpler life, a better way of being. My dream personally is living the cruising life, sailing around the world over and over, visiting all those magical places that can't be reached by any course but that of the ocean.

Some time next year I want to take about two weeks off and do a sailing charter through Tahiti and French Polynesia. Hopefully I can rope Barry and Jen into the trip, but another couple or two would be good for brining the costs down. I'm looking at chartering a crewed 50+ foot catamaran sailboat and exploring the islands. Below are a variety of photos of what I'm talking about.

If you think this is something you'd be interested in doing, it wouldn't be a cheap trip, but it would be absolutely amazing and life changing (aren't all things?)… Drop me a line if you think you'd like to do this. It can also be set up as a training mission for those seeking to learn to sail a larger craft. That's part of my motivation, because while I'm proficient in smaller fresh-water sailing, I've never sailed anything over twenty feet personally, and certainly not on the open sea.

It's possible that I spend too much of my time dreaming of a better life, but in reality, I think it's far more likely that most of us spend our time convincing ourselves that such a better life doesn't even exist.