The inspiration to write this book came sixteen years after a great adventure and quite by chance, after reading someone else’s memoir, a book about their sailing adventure across the South Pacific. When done reading of their experiences, the author actually felt so dissappointed for them They faced stormy seas, unpredictable weather, inconvenient access to food, unfriendly islanders and she thought, ‘How sad for you to have missed out a the best adventure of my lifee.’ Her experience was nothing like theirs. For years she had been asked, “Why don’t you write a book?” and her response was always, “There are already too many sailing books and they are all the same.” But they are not the same – as she discovered. Reading ‘that’ book was the shove she needed. Linda dug out her journals (10 of them) and wrote her own story; her adventure was exhilarating, fun and often funny, memorable, life changing and certainly challenging at times but not for one moment was it regrettable.
Having cast off her worldly chattels, purged the stuff that no longer mattered, rid herself of trinkets that cluttered her shelves, eliminated the mounds of nonsensical things that crowded the corners of her life, this prairie girl tore away the binds of the internet, broke down the bricks and mortar that surrounded her and excused herself from the stresses of life, driven by bills and the hopeless state of a materialistic world.
Some thought her to be brave. Others described her as foolish and naïve while others thought her mad but she didn’t care.
The Pacific Ocean awaited her and what an adventure it was.