Full moon is full moon even in the ocean, and it likes to play tricks. In our case, the tricks are headwind and headcurrent. One night we put out the sea anchor and in the morning found ourselves 5km closer
There is nothing quite as dramatic as the reality and for this reason 4 days ago we decided not to describe our situation in detail. We didn’t want to scare those closest to us. Doctors emotionlessly described our condition as life-threatening.
We are past 2000km mark and have maintained silence for a while, and for a good reason. We are kind-of on a pause right now, because the skin lesions that we fought 1,5 weeks before are back and even more
The alarm goes off and I wake up for my shift. It is 2:00 in the night. I get out of the cabin. I slowly stand up on the 40x80cm area behind the door and clench my fist around the
For two days now, Karlis is out of the hospital and enjoys rowing experience. The ocean was still as a table and small dolphins were jumping out of the blue surface. Tonight our not so good friend Wave Windy returned,
Be advised - don’t read this at the table! When the wind has finally calmed down and we can start rowing again, we are faced with yet another challenge - skin inflammations often called the furuncles. Despite the vastness of water
The waves stood in a formation and waved cheerful flags at us. Yes, the first 1000 in the ocean went by unnoticed. Those 11 unauthorized showers in one night were more noticeable. In the European campsites you often have to
It seams that the ocean is reading our blog, because the minute we called it calm and quiet it got angry. We spent the night balancing our boat on thin wave peaks and getting showered so often that we lost
The feeling of movement is indescribable. Centimeter after centimeter, meter after meter. The days are running by and forming weeks. We honestly can’t believe that soon we will start our third week of scooping ocean’s water with extensions of our
For now we are on schedule - we have rowed more than 550 km in 8 days and finally we are over the sea sickness - the patches really work. Every morning we are blessed by an amazing sunrise and every