Aleria's Adventures

The Joy of Missing Out comes in places like this. Not your office cubicle, for sure. I was reading an article about the hottest trends of the year and I had to smile when I got to this one. JOMO or the joy of missing out is replacing FOMO or the fear of missing out. I'd say that bodes well for sailing. If more people are asking, is there all there is, then more will say, "Let's go see for ourselves." Yes, I think there's a new generation of sailors in the making.

Connected below deck during a gale On our voyage to Spain this summer, one of the things I was really looking forward to was disconnecting from the digital world for a period of time. There are two places where one can still disconnect: under the sea and in the middle of it. We'd be out of range of mobile signal, and therefore internet access, for days at a time since we sold our SAT phone. When crossing the Bay of Biscay, we could be unplugged for 4 days.