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.
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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
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
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"