A day at sea

Sunday, February 3, 2019

Today is an “at sea” day so I’m going to keep this one short so that I have some time to go outside and enjoy.

As I mentioned before “at sea” days are a little more calm for me, allowing me to recharge my social battery, read a good book, or even get in an extra long nap. But, I have one more thing that I do each day after we’ve pulled out of port and that is to update my map.

I mentioned in an earlier post that I bought this map to trace my travels. Initially, I wanted to have some fun tracing my travels on this cruise. But now, there’s something that is kind of bothering me and I can’t seem to make up my mind about what I should do.

As you can see, I’ve already scratched Colombia, Panama, and Perú. That leaves a big, annoying brown spot that is Ecuador. Ecuador lies between Colombia and Perú, yet we had no stops in Ecuador so it remains unattractively unscratched.

I have, however, been to Ecuador and I’ve done so recently. Just last August I spent a week in Ecuador and the lovely Galapagos Islands which are part of Ecuador. Therefore, I’m teetering on the cusp of scratching off Ecuador and simply repurposing my map as “all of the places I’ve visited this year.” That will make it look nicer, IMHO.

I don’t know. Which should win out: my personal esthetics or the originally stated purpose of the map? Help me decide. Tell me your opinion in this brief little poll.

Thank for your feedback. Tomorrow I arrive in Arica, Chile, a country that I’ve never visited before.

What is it?

A couple of posts ago, I presented you with this little imp:

Stephanie Foster was the very first one to ring in with the correct answer! Way to go, Stephanie. And, I’d like to add, that although finding that first correct guess is fun, I sometimes laugh out loud at some of the wrong answers.

Now, don’t forget there’s still one animal out there that’s waiting to be identified. Send a reply to this post and tell me what you think it is.

G’night.