It Runneth the Earth’s Wide Regions Round …

Saturday, 28 May 2016
Gulf Waters RV Resort — Port Aransas, Texas

The Sea — Bryan Waller Procter (1787–1874)

THE SEA! the sea! the open sea! •• The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
Without a mark, without a bound, •• It runneth the earth’s wide regions round;
It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; •• Or like a cradled creature lies.

I ’m on the sea! I ’m on the sea! •• I am where I would ever be;
With the blue above, and the blue below, •• And silence wheresoe’er I go;
If a storm should come and awake the deep, •• What matter? I shall ride and sleep.  …

[Click this link for the rest of the poem.]

Did you know that approximately 71% of the earth’s surface is covered with water?  That’s what the USGS website says.  And over 96% of that water is in the seas and oceans around the world.

We’ve been cruising since 1999 — fairly regularly since 2001.  In the years since our first cruise, we’ve sailed many of the earth’s seas and oceans … with many more to be transited during our upcoming voyage.

I was curious to see if I could somehow document where we’ve been … where we will be going.  The map below tells the story.

The blue stars represent the seas we’ve sailed … the red stars are those
that we will sail during the 180 days we will be aboard Insignia next year.
[base map from Wikipedia; the stars are mine … Attribution at this link.]

Even after circumnavigating the earth, there will be bodies of water we will not have touched.  Methinks that might mean more cruises in the years ahead :-)

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