[Ed's note: this was written and meant to be posted on the 14th, but connection problems precluded me from posting. Therefore, the comment at the end of the post is no longer valid.]
OK, I’ll admit that I have been a little stingy with my posts and updates of late. I’ll fain that I am just keeping too busy doing stuff to actually sit and write a post or two. This is a convenient truth to use as my cover. Rather than expend much more energy constructing and giving life to this construct, I will just finish this part of the post by noticing the tendency and then move past it.
The problem with trying to catch-up with not posting is working out both what might be of interest and which direction to go, do I start now and work backwards or start at some past point and move forward? I had fun little expertise today similar to this. I was standing on the deck of the ferry as we were pulling away from the quay in Korčula. As the ferry reversed (is there an nautical term for this?), I walked from the stern towards the bow. As I did so, I kept exact pace with navigational marker at the end of the quay so that I had the sensation of both moving and standing still at the same time. Weird, but cool.
OK, so I am writing this on the MV Liburnija on my way to Dubrovnik from the island of Hvar. To save on space and adjectives I will say this just once: once in your life you should, without question, make a pilgrimage to the Croatian coast. On your pilgrimage, you may fall prey to unscrupulous opportunists milking money from the tourist trade, you may be unnerved by the volumes of people filling every nook and cranny of the coast line in July and August and you may be disappointed by the inexplicably high cost of fresh and abundant seafood. But, you will utterly fail to be unmoved by the beauty and splendor that is … [I’m interrupting this paragraph to report that pod of dolphins just swam past the ferry; we now return to our regularly scheduled blog post] … at hand.
You know what? To hell with it. I’m going to end this post right here. I am going to end this post on the simple and plain truth that the Croatian coast needs nothing else from me except to say what I already have said.
I’ll pick up the travel log in another post in a day or so, while I’m in Dubrovnik.
