EQUATOR!!!

The 8th of October we left the southern hemisphere with no imminent plans of returning. We are getting closer to home now 8.000 miles done, 10.000 to go. From now on we are on our home hemisphere. It does actually have a homy feel to it. We celebrated on the foredeck by donning our best shorts and breaking out the bottle of aquavit, which crossed the equator for the third time. We chatted with the stereo blasting and the boat coasting along at a leisurely three knots. We did attract a certain curiosity from some local fishermen apparantly unaccustomed to sailors dressed in their sunday best, waving around bottles of traditional Norwegian liquor.