There is still a lot to get done. That has become my mantra this summer. But we are slowly checking things off the list and adding things and checking them off and adding things... Nonetheless, it is important to take some time off and reflect now and then. I've been spending so much time projecting and planning recently, that it is easy to neglect what is going on right around me. Take, for instance, this woman, who has spent three years with me now, two of which living on a little wooden boat, and who still thinks it's a good idea to take off on a 25,000 mile motorcycle trip together. So before we begin I would just like to say ‘Diana, thank you for listening to my crazy ideas, and being patient with me, and finding my lost things, and telling me when I smell bad, and pulling splinters out of my fingernails. I hope you still like me after a few thousand miles.’