Ok, so daily updates aren’t going to happen. No more promises of them.
Yesterday, i got promoted from cadet to cook/deckhand. I am being sent to Adak in the Alutian Islands for 2 months(~ 51°45′ - 176°45′). This is great, as it solves many problems of money and seatime. It will also give me a chance to visit Alaska in the summer. We will be traveling up the in inland passage and then cutting across the Gulf of Alaska. To the tail bone of no where.
Most of my audio books have had a technical problem. I have read most of my books (although I haven’t cracked Histories) and listened to all the audio books I can. I have done all of my sea phase 1 tasks, 50% of sea phase 2, 25% or sea phase 3&4. They said I wouldn’t have much time to actually work, but I have been cleaning and did some painting. The deck is awash because of the trade winds we are heading into, so little outside work can be done.
Today, I have been working on menus for the Adak trip. Unfortunately, I can only get food from Safeway, from an approved list. It’s funny, because this is supposed to be for cost control, but I don’t get to actually go - it’s all ordered, and my order sheet doesn’t have a price list. So…I am ordering blind.
I am hoping that we can get fish while we are there. What do the Eskimos eat? Remember this is not the tundra - this is a an isolated 25 mile wide island a thousand miles from the continent. I will be frantically doing research when I get back.
I have been reading two books now… Collapse and Mayflower. I am at the point in Collapse which discusses the collapse of the Nordic settlement in Greenland and the Norse relationship with the inuit. who survived in the same environment. Similarly, Mayflower is about European settlers dealing with the Massachussets, who never would have let them settle if they hadn’t been wiped out by the plague. It seems so odd how they dealt with the native population, as if those people where without motives and beyond too much curiosity. However, when I mentioned that I was interested in how the Eskimos survived, i got exactly the same attitude from my co-workers. “huh, - how is that relevant? probably handouts.”
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