Blue View – How Others Around the World are Coping with the Pandemic

Blue View – How Others Around the World are Coping with the Pandemic

We’ve had the great good fortune to meet many wonderful people in our travels around the world. We’ve stayed in touch with may of them. When we asked them how they were faring these days and coping with the global pandemic, here’s what they said…

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Blue View – The Last Pandemic from a Sailor’s View

Blue View – The Last Pandemic from a Sailor’s View

The last pandemic occurred in 2009 while we were on a long passage from Easter Island to Pitcairn Island. Our communications at sea were limited and we were totally unaware that the H1N1 swine flu epidemic had become a full fledged, worldwide pandemic. Thus we were quite surprised to discover that Pitcairn had closed its port and wasn’t allowing any new arrivals to land…

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