{"id":189,"date":"2011-05-14T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sv-ananda.com\/a-slight-change-in-plans\/"},"modified":"2020-01-24T09:51:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T14:51:43","slug":"a-slight-change-in-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"A Slight Change In Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Last summer was incredibly exciting for me. Cruising from Lake Huron, through the great lakes, down the St. Lawrence River and through Atlantic Canada was an amazing trip. I was really looking forward to the next leg of my journey this summer–to cruise in the Maritimes for a couple of months and then head down the US coastline to\u00a0ultimately end up in Chesapeake Bay in late September, early October.<\/div>\n
And then along came an opportunity to work in Kuwait with my former boss Gary Miller!<\/div>\n
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When I originally took the assignment to Kuwait I had planned to spend 3 months there, come home in May, spend a month with my family and then begin my cruise again. However, when I got to Kuwait I quickly found myself with a renewed excitement about my work. I am\u00a0on a great team of professionals, on a really interesting project, in a fascinating country and part of the world,\u00a0and working with a great client who sincerely appreciates our efforts to serve them as best as we can. These factors all combined to motivate me to put my cruising plans aside for a season and return to Kuwait for one or two more 90-day work terms. I have to admit that I even surprized myself when I made this decision. I am also very fortunate that my wife Catherine has been totally supportive of me through all of this.<\/p>\n

It will be hard to\u00a0imagine Ananda sitting idle for an entire season but she is in a safe place and will be just fine. I have also arranged for the boatyard to do some extra work on her to preserve the engine and other systems and to make\u00a0some additional improvements for me. After all, if I am going to be away for a season I might as well spend some of the cruising savings on upgrades, eh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last summer was incredibly exciting for me. Cruising from Lake Huron, through the great lakes, down the St. Lawrence River and through Atlantic Canada was an amazing trip. I was really looking forward to the next leg of my journey this summer–to cruise in the Maritimes for a couple of months and then head down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2011-kuwait"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ppZJ-33","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11742,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/11742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}