San Pedro-Land Ho!

The tour lengths get shorter-14 Daze Panama Canal Crossing is done. California  was created to
 provide a place for boats to visit.

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe.

"Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. " Herman Melville

I can relate to that quote-Hospitality jobs are a safety net for the "middle classes"; jobs of last resort when the w2 salaried gigs are unavailable. Since they are so  low paying, people quit and there is high turn over.  I simply wanted to travel around the world.

I wrote:
Call it faith!  A passion for the possible. I am full of it, and shooting from the hip that is to say,   as I stated, having an adventure is something more but nothing less than bad planning.  When I cold-called for my first ship job, and got it after a 12 minute elevator pitch, I began to trust myself, and my elevator pitch, and only when you trust yourself can you truly begin to live it up.