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15 août 2010

Palmerston

Welcome to paradise. If you haven't been to Palmerston, don't plan on flying here. The nearest airport is 2 days away on a fast moving motor boat. Besides the supply ship that shows up here every 3 - 6 months, the only other contact with the outside World...

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24 juillet 2010

Tahiti

After what seemed like way too short a time in the Tuamotos, we sailed to Tahiti. We went there to celebrate Jacob's 30th birthday and to do a crew change. When I say Tahiti most people think of honeymoons. When I think of Tahiti, I think of one long...

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13 janvier 2008

Skiing in Nanshan

The sky was blue, the air was crisp; in fact it was tough to believe that we were in Beijing. We (Steffi, Christopher, Nicole and I) loaded up in Nicole's car and hit the road to Nanshan. After about 45 minutes a speck of white formed on the brown horizon....

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16 septembre 2007

Beach Camping

With a bus packed full of girls, food, beer and booze, we set off to Qing Huang Dao to camp on the beach. The fact that guys weren't fighting to get in on the trip baffled me, but Vinny and I had the fortune to be alone with 8 girls on a nice secluded...

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12 décembre 2006

Cruising the Caribbean

After months of no traveling, it was finally time to move my closet into my suitcase and head to the airport. I started my traveling day in style with a good lunch with Tine and James, followed by a nice and relaxing foot massage. The foot massage was...

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28 septembre 2011

I'm BACK!!!

Time has flown ... I can't believe that almost a year has passed since my last blog entry. If anything, it proves that I've been busy, and haven't been traveling much. The only traveling I've done has been a couple of trips home to Stavanger and working...

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13 janvier 2010

Ups and downs

Today is the last day I am alone on board the boat, hopefully for a long time. I'll get back to why later. First I want to look at how my time on Curacao has gone since the last charter was over. When the family of 5 walked ashore, they gave me a few...

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21 avril 2010

La Playita, Taboga and Las Perlas

I can't explain how good it felt to finally be in the Pacific. Our plan was to be on our way as soon as possible ... That plan kind of backfired, because we ended up spending over 2 weeks getting ready, provisioning and doing small jobs on the boat. La...

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10 janvier 2009

Blue Monday

After a great 2008 with many ups and a few downs and a sensational exit out of it, 2009 has come to hit me in the face. It feels like getting fired on a Monday after a particular festive weekend. There are many reasons for this, chief amongst them that...

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6 décembre 2009

Crew changes

It is probably with the same amount of surprise that you read this, that I write it: Petar has decided that the sailing life is not for him ... and this before we even hit the water with the boat. Yesterday he went into town to do some internetting and...

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4 janvier 2010

Go West

The decision has been taken. I am not sailing back to Norway ... Not yet anyway ... I take that back. I am still sailing back to Norway, but instead of sailing home in an Easterly direction I'm doing it in a Westerly direction. I'm heading into the Pacific...

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21 janvier 2010

Otto is back

The sun had just dipped under the horizon when Claudia released the mooring lines and I reversed one engine and put the other one forward, spinning us on the spot and turning our aft end to Bonaire. This was to be the big test to see how things would...

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17 juin 2005

Finally

As James Brown would say "Papa's got a brand new bag". After contemplating a blog for a LONG time I've finally taken the big step and created one. This blog is going to be a journal of all the traveling I do. At the same time it'll also function as an...

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7 août 2009

My future plans

The last update should have brought you up to speed what I have been doing these past few months. In this post, which will hopefully be a bit shorter, I'll address what my future plans are, because to put it mildly they have changed drastically. Originally...

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25 septembre 2008

Second attempt at IJmuiden

We spent a good weekend in Egersund reading, eating good food and relaxing, while we waited for good northerly winds, scheduled to arrive on Monday. We did get a bit of bad news, because Frode had to return to work, so it would only be Lauren and I that...

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11 octobre 2008

Going to Cherbourg … or wait a minute!

We woke up early and maneuvered alongside the fuelingship. The night alongside the fuel barge had been short and uneventful. With freshly topped off tanks and 100 liters in jerry cans, we hurried into the marina in IJmuiden to do the last few things....

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22 octobre 2008

The Bay of Biscay

We stayed in Falmouth for a total of 4 days. It did however feel like a lot longer. Not because it was a boring place, but because we accomplished so much. We made a number of new friends, tried out most of the nearby (and some of the not-so-nearby) pubs,...

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13 juillet 2009

Finally an update

It had been a long time since I last wrote something here. So now I'm returning with a vengeance! (Pictures will be posted soon) As most of you know I've been working like mad the last few months for Royal Caribbean, to make some much needed cash. My...

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24 juillet 2005

1st Travel Log from China

(This was sent to all my friends on June 30th, 2005) I woke up this morning and realized I had slept in a bar. Not a bad way to start to my travels in China. Where am I you might ask ... well, I'm in Ningbo, south of Shanghai. I flew in to Shanghai yesterday...

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20 août 2005

Smitten

It might not come as a big shock, but when I returned to Norway I was a changed man. I had been smitten and decided to return as soon as possible. Within one month I was back in China, which I guess shows just how certain I was. Moving to China meant...

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23 août 2005

Going Back

(This was sent to all my friends on August 23rd, 2005 ... 2 days before I boarded the plane bound for Beijing) What can I say? I'm a schmuck! Pick the most difficult language on the planet where 5 different pronunciations turns the same word into 5 wildly...

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9 septembre 2005

First Update from China

There I was standing in front of 50 Chinese students, when thetechnical "genious" on the faculty told me that the one thing I wasrelying on, the DVD player, wouldn't work! So my preparations were shot and I had to wing a 20 minute triallecture that would...

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26 septembre 2005

On the road again ... actually ... on the sea again!

Hung-over, tired and with a funky stomach: I have to admit defeat. TheNingbo solution to jetlag (getting severely trashed forcing the body tofocus on getting rid of alcohol toxins instead of jetlag) did not workas planned in Vancouver. Since last time,...

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1 janvier 2006

2005 New Years Greeting

HAPPY NEW YEAR! We’ve just clocked into 2006 and it feels good. Last year was a great year and if the trend continues, this year will be equally excellent. I want to apologize to those of you’ve that have written me in the past two months without receiving...

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1 février 2006

Turning 30

(Sorry ... only in Norwegian ... This is the answer I sent my brother, when he asked me to write what it felt like to turn 30) Herregud! I dag når jeg våknet opp var jeg blitt 30! … 30 … Jeg var usikker på om panikk ville gripe meg og lurte på hva som...

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