This journey showed me again that the sea rarely gives you the trip you planned for. It gives you delays, repairs, aching feet, missed ingredients, and too much to carry; then, just when you feel emptied out, it offers a peaceful anchorage, a stranger’s kindness, cicadas at dusk, or a sunset that seems to light the sky on fire. Amidst the long, tiring hours on my feet, the endless choreography of putting out meals, and caring for everyone else, I managed to find my own moments of return gazing before my strip of galley window. Continue reading From the Galley Window: A Soulful Dispatch from the Riviera