For those unitiated welcome to my diary entries. By some strange twist of fate I am in the position of owning a boat, and am intending to sail back to Vancouver, the place I grew up and call, still to this day, home. I will depart from London which is also my home. In a sense I have always fealt that as a citizen of a city you are a citizen of the world so in both cities I have a home a place arround which I am blessed with good friends. I am sailing between homes.

So what is this solipsistic rant all about then? Well the begining of a journey like this is in a lot of ways the hardest part. I am leaving a city I have learnt to love and cherish - London. Many like to complain but in London there is a richness that boils under it's verigated and sometimes squalid surface. My flat over looks Brockwell Park for example. A beautiful park. One with nature at my door, one with history on the crest of it's hill and one with that sort of Capability Browne landscape that has been perfectly tended to please the senses and especially the eye.

But I digress. The mater at hand, where exactly am I in my Voyage back home. In a sense it is all ready well started but this is my first diary entry. Today, March 20th 2004 I am stalled, sittin at home 8 days before the last day of work, just taking stalk of where I am. What I am about to do. After nearly 10 years working in the same company it is hard to believe I am really leaving work. Emmotions have started to pitch back and forth as if psychically I am starting to come untied from my moorings. Emotionally I am at sea. There is in a sense too much to process. Leaving work, packing up my London flat, moving onto and preparing to outfit the boat. Plans most immediately are to put everything not going in the boat, into storage, redecorate the flat, fix the sash windows and rent it out!

By May I should have a new home on Compramise. A 32 foot sloop built in England and loveing looked after by her previous owners, Stuart and Ann Stone. But there is much to outfit her for a global voyage. You see there is a lot to do!