Dear People,
It has been almost seven months— 156 days — since we started our circumnavigation. Not quite half way through, our journey has been astoundingly rich and full so far— too much so to recap with any coherence. So we will just start, where we are, now.
At the time of this writing, we are on Denarau Island, Fiji. An unexpected detour to a tourist enclave teeming with Kiwi and Aussie families on winter break, Toby required some urgent medical care at a hospital in Nadi Town, the unfortunate outcome of a nasty staph infection picked up in the water at a beach party in Tonga (so we think). Suffice to say, this enforced downtime has got me to the keyboard at long last. And without these tourists, including us, such excellent medical facilities would not exist.
But before I go any further, let me zoom back out and explain why we have been so bad at this. A dear colleague of Toby’s put it rather bluntly: “man, it’s a good thing you’re not an influencer because you suck at it!” So what’s the deal?
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