#4 Ahoy matey!

I’m Zoey. I know Butch has second thoughts about a dog on a boat. But…I’m HERE!! I’ve lived with my mom, Cheryl, for almost twelve years so, we’re a package deal.

I love traveling and don’t care if I’m in an RV or a boat. I just want to tag along. I use a pee pad at home on a regular basis so I hope not to be too much of a bother in that regard. My goal for this trip is to spend quality time with my humans and to sneak into the big bed as often as possible. I look forward to having the sun in my face and the wind in my hair.

“Reality. An alternative—and better—definition of reality can be found by naming some of its components …air…sunlight…wind…water…the motion of waves…the patterns of clouds before a coming storm. These elements, unlike 20th-century office routines, have been here since before life appeared on this planet and they will continue long after office routines are gone. They are understood by everyone, not just a small segment of a highly advanced society.

When considered on purely logical grounds, they are more real than the extremely transitory lifestyles of the modern civilization the depressed ones want to return to. If this is so, then it follows that those who see sailing as an escape from reality have got their understanding of both sailing and reality completely backwards.

Sailing is not an escape but a return to and a confrontation of a reality from which modern civilization is itself an escape. For centuries, man suffered from the reality of an earth that was too dark or too hot or too cold for his comfort, and to escape this he invented complex systems of lighting, heating and air conditioning.

Sailing rejects these and returns to the old realities of nature’s cycles and moods. Modern civilization has found radio, TV, movies, nightclubs and a huge variety of mechanized entertainment to titillate our senses and help us escape from the apparent boredom of the earth and the sun and wind and stars. Sailing returns to these ancient realities.” Robert Pirsig