Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Groundhog Day: Re-crossing the International Date Line

Didn’t we do this yesterday?”—Bill Murray’s character in the movie “Groundhog Day”

Back in February, I posted about having lost a day by crossing the international date line.  Well, sooner or later we were going to get that day back.  We did, on April 21.

April 21, 2016 is a day that happened twice in my life.  It was a Tuesday. Twice.  It was a day at sea.  Twice.  It was a day that a young woman on the ship turned 21.  Twice.  That was quite a party.

It also was a day in which we went from being 17 hours ahead of the U.S. east coast to 6 hours behind it.  Though I’m not sure which April 21 was the one on which that happened.  Which pretty much sums up that day.  Whichever day it was.


Next up: the remote corners of Alaska.

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