This New Year's Eve, there will be the usual number of year-end voyages, but there has been little talk of welcoming the actual millennium.
The story of a boy and his dog, sent off by an avenging angel on a never-ending voyage.
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Usually they ended their voyages with little to show for their work.
In the end my voyage around the edge of the Greater Mexico City area took 51 days.
British officials said that the British insurer of the Russian vessel, the 400-foot MV Alaed, had canceled its coverage policy because of the cargo, forcing the vessel to end the voyage.
When the house lights came up at the end of "Voyage," I felt as if a thick novel in which I had totally lost myself had been snatched from my hands.
By the end of "Voyage," several things had happened: a human-size ginger cat had made an enigmatic cameo, Alexander Pushkin had been shot, Herzen had been exiled to Siberia, the sun had set in Russia, and Mark and Glover had exchanged numbers.
Sailing, he writes, always helped "displace the emptiness inside me with the awareness of direction": "an awareness that there is a beginning to the voyage and an end to the voyage, and that this beginning and ending is part of the natural order of things".
Thus ends a voyage into Hell undertaken not for moral reasons but for the sheer joy of going under.
The ship comes back by way of New York, Norfolk, Savannah, the Panama Canal and Manzanillo, ending the voyage in Los Angeles.
