Vigo

Sept 20th and 21st
Vigo/at sea

For the 20th, I signed up for the “trekking Vigo” tour, a chance for me to get off the ship and go prance around in a forest…or something like that. So that’s just what I did, took a bus out to a trail with my tour group and spent a few hours in a Spanish forest. We walked alongside a waterfall where there was a stretch of old watermills, and the tour guide explained their function and took us inside many of them. I later had a go with some geese, and prior to that with a thorn bush. So maybe I didn’t make it back from the trip unscathed, but had fun anyways. Then, when I got back, I was able to grab lunch with the tour guide from the canoeing trip I did a month ago. We had set it up through talking on facebook and met up after the tour as planned. We invited the canoeing tour escort to come along as well, a girl I know from the ship. So we found a nice place and ordered some kind of fish that I was totally unfamiliar with, but liked. We’re going to try to hook up the next few times I’m in Vigo as well. Otherwise, we had to play for the American Drifters that night, and that was my day…except for one thing.
So we had another medical emergency on the 20th, making it the 4th helicopter evacuation this cruise, more than I’ve seen my entire 2 months aboard. During the procedure, the ship uses bow thrusters and has to maneuver to accommodate the helicopter basket, thus making for a lot of motion down below. I was in the bathroom at the time, but a quick turn threw my computer from the shelf I’d placed it on. Now, I didn’t do the best job of securing it, so I’ll take some blame, but it fell almost 6 feet from my top shelf onto the floor. Well, I’m still writing the blog, so it obviously still works, but I put a hell of a dent on the back corner. So after that fall test, I now stand behind apple computers 100%, it’s unbelievable that this thing survived a fall that large, took minimal cosmetic damage, and still works no problem. I might leave it with the apple store in Southampton for a check up to make sure I didn’t destroy anything internally, but I’m absolutely amazed at the quality of the computer to withstand that impact.
21st, final sea day, farewell show, and not much more to say about that.