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having this little cat show up and want to spend all his time hanging out next to me is super cool and is making me have thoughts

here i am living on an island, and if i were to scratch together a bunch of money i can probably acquire a boat that is big enough to navigate the route across to brazil and from there up the coast and around and eventually make my way to somewhere in the south of USA an my path to migrating to Wyoming

no decent ship is complete without a ship's cat, you gotta keep them rats at bay and living in a boat, in the atlantic, it will be pretty easy to actually catch and store my own atlantic cod and do like they do here, gut and splay it and salt and dry and it keeps for months without refrigeration

having my own transport and house rolled into one and being in some kind of interesting technical international limbo may have some interesting effects on my mind that i don't quite anticipate yet, but i think this is gonna be a goal for me now... this next year, even if i have to move to another place here to continue along these lines, but to get the cash together to get a big enough ship that i can cross the atlantic in, and keep my cat in

i love this little guy, and i think we are gonna be very good friends

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Daniel Wigton 1y ago

That's an amazing goal. I can't personally imagine crossing the ocean. The hardest part to square though is Wyoming. Why there?

Badsamm 1y ago

Exactly. Why Wyoming?

Liberty Gal 1y ago

That's a long boat ride. You'd have the trade off of the more direct path, but wide open ocean, bad weather, and no access to fuel or following the coast which would make it even longer. That's a very interesting goal.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, i'd prefer to stick with going by the safety of nearby coastline in case of bad weather so i can go tether as needed, lots of stuff to see along the way, so many little ports and docks, and go as directly as possible across to the big landmass... maybe i'll pass by Cape Verde and the Canaries along the path, this matter of needing to refuel is definitely a thing

but yeah, i'm quite serious about this, i was thinking maybe try to travel on a cargo ship but then after i'm looking at this little creature how a salty dog like me should be a ship's capn and arr and hum and harr myself along the way, yeah, and how this is a place to live and work and even catch food where currently i'm stuck with being out in the middle of nowhere to get my quiet... that's not gonna be a problem even just docked in a relatively busy marina...

i just put the food out, this was the cat that arrived, and his company got my hamster wheels spinning

and i realised that a reasonably capable sea going vessel would solve a lot of my problems all in one fell swoop, and i probably can get into this within a year of dedicated work and stacking

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

oh yeah, and why did the kitty inspire this?

because i don't want to leave behind another cat

last cat i adopted was born in my apartment and then the war broke out in ukraine and i was like, no, i think i would prefer to be further away from this than right next door on the black sea

he was the kitten of a cat that was probably the direct descendant of a russian blue cat owned by a ukrainian refugee, very very likely, because i had already noticed since maybe back 2018 also in Serbia a lot of russian blue cats suddenly appearing in neighbourhoods, and i know that they are common in russia and ukraine but kinda uncommon outside of those regions, that's why the breed is called "russian" - it's common in russia (it originated from an island up near finland, in fact)

so, it all kinda meshes together in my mind... i want a cat, permanent pet, i want to have him on my lap for the next 20 years, ideally, and not abandon or lose him along the way, and being a ship cat and me adopting a ship and seeing this little critter as my responsibility and ward something that i want... see, i don't have children but hell if i'm gonna be a hermit then i need a cat, and if i need a cat, then better it's a ship cat because this also solves my problems with getting stupid driving licences and negotiating transport, because i have a ship, and i live in the ship and i travel in the ship

maybe after this one big trip i'll go back to being a landlubber but me and mochi here are gonna be stuck together like glue, after some 4-6 months in a rocking boat with this little guy my only company yeah i'm just gonna dock and make my scheme to transport us into the high altitude hermitage scenario directly, or at least to a reasonable intermediate situation

and even then, if i can navigate some ways inland via big rivers that would be bonus points, escape from the storms of the nasty noisy gulf of mexico and up the mississipi or something until it's too narrow and then dock there

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

the thread of ponderance continues

just needed to add some other points related to this decision matrix

specifically, part of it was not just the kittah, who i don't want to leave behind, but also considering the small chatttels i possess, desktop pc, monitor, sound system, electric raising desk, and similar items, that would fit in my ship's study room, opposite my cartography table, with the kittah at my feet trying to trip me over because he wants my pats real bad, with the anchor down by the side of some almost uncharted atoll

the imagery is so compelling

i had a thing about the wife and the family and shit but being the crazy hermit ships captain is more appealing to me now, i guess that's what time does to you, especially that time they call "middle age"