Spirit of a Dream: A Sailor's Ultimate Journey Around the World Alone

by Dave Rearick

I’m outward bound, sailing away from the young dreamer I was, and starkly realizing my new heading is toward the old dreamer that I am.

“You plan, work, and prepare for a journey; stuff a duffle with expectations, sling it on your back and head off, taking the first few, confident, bounding steps, and when you reach the first fork in the road, you find most of your planning was pretty much wasted. The journey you are on will teach you what you need to learn, not what you plan to learn.”

It’s taken me years to understand how a man can be more influential in absentia than in person.