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Whispering Jesse is a blog about the pursuit of a dream, to sail around the world. Until that adventure actually begins, it will be about the sailing trips, travels, thoughts and experiences of its creator, John Lichty.
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The Odyssey: Slideshow
Sorry for the delay in posting additional photos from our Odyssey trip. I took about 360 so it has taken some time to figure out which ones to share. While reviewing them, I came up with a novel idea:...
The Odyssey: Early Photos
Nan and I are checked into the Sofitel Hotel at the Athens airport, after our Aegean Airlines flight over from Corfu this morning. Early tomorrow morning we fly back to Colorado with Lufthansa by way ...
The Odyssey: Corfu
We arrived in Corfu yesterday morning after an overnight passage from Ithaca. After four nights of passages between Kusadasi and Corfu, Nan and I were ready to get off the boat. As soon as we tied up ...
The Odyssey: Ithaca
We have arrived at Ithaca, Ulysses' home island, on the Ionian coast of Greece. Quetzal is currently anchored in the harbor of Vanthi. We will be renting cars in a little while to drive up to the Cave...
The Odyssey: Kusadasi, Turkey
Hello from the marina in Kusadasi. Yes, we have finally left Greece behind for Turkey after a full week of sailing. We arrived this afternoon after motoring over from Pythagoria on Samos, where we moo...
The Odyssey: Kirikos on Ikaria
Not where you (or we) expected. The winds have been blowing hard out of the north so we have been unable to make much comfortable headway in that direction. Instead we have been heading east. So from ...
The Odyssey: Gavrio
Greetings from Gavrio, on the island of Andros, about sixty miles east of Athens. We are pinned down here by a Force 7 to 8 gale that is blowing out of the north. We arrived here late yesterday aftern...
The Odyssey: Acropolis
On Tuesday morning, Nan and I caught some breakfast at an Everest Cafe ("It's cool!") and then took a taxi down to the Acropolis. We had hoped to meet Harry and Velinda there, but they were running b...
The Odyssey: Athens
Greetings from Athens.We arrived today at about 1:30 PM local time. That post from yesterday was sent by Capt. John from the SPOT beacon on Quetzal, which is parked in a slip at Marina Zea in Piraeus,...
OK ESN:0-7351773
This is Quetzal, all is well. We'll be in touch when we can.ESN:0-7351773Latitude:37.9349Longitude:23.6488Nearest Location: Piraeus, GreeceDistance: 2 km(s)Time:04/20/2008 10:21:05 (US/Eastern) http:/...
The Odyssey: Departure
Tomorrow morning we depart for our long-awaited Odyssey trip.We will arrive in Athens on Monday afternoon and maybe do a little sightseeing if we're not too jet lagged. Our hotel is within walking dis...
The Odyssey: Route
In the earlier post The Odyssey: Preview, I outlined the route we would be sailing in general terms. Here is a map from Tim Severin's 1987 book, The Ulysses Voyage: Sea Search for the Odyssey, that s...
The Odyssey: Preview
In a little over nine weeks, on April 23, Nan and I will begin the sailing adventure of a lifetime, a re-creation of The Odyssey, Homer's epic tale of Ulysses's journey from the Trojan War to his hom...