This is where the voyage begins.  Everything is loaded and ready to go.

Lots of thoughts up to this point; I wonder how it’s going to be, and how I’ll handle things.

This all started with Dad taking me sailing on a little sailboat; I can still remember how heeled-over

we were, and how close the water was to coming in the boat.  Yah!  Now I wish Dad was along for this adventure.

If he was “a few years younger” he would no doubt be here with me.