Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.

Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.

I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.

All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.

I had begun to think that dreams are meant to be no more than dreams and that in reality dreams don't come true. Then my brother (Zac) left on his trip. It was amazing to see all the support that he got from around the world and to see how everyone worked together to help make his dream reality. Watching him do this really made me believe that I could too.

But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.