GYPSY REPORT #23 January 1, 2003 -- Postscript Crossing the Pacific is nothing like I imagined. It is not the vision-- after so many months aboard Gypsy, honing solo endurance skills and learning to sleep in 20-minute snatches. Having read the accounts of celebrated single-handers-- Slocum, Knox-Johnson, MacAurthur-- and heard from cruisers of their exploits in Fiji and Vanuatu, the transit doesn’t match expectation... more > > POSITION: 37º 58' N - 122º 29' W San Francisco, California We sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge at noon on the 4th of July. That was the uncontested high point on a cold and foggy journey up the coast of California. We had memorable layovers in Santa Barbara (love the bike taxis) and Monterey (believe the aquarium hype) and now we've settled into the Emery Cove marina, just below the Bay Bridge. Acclimating to life is the States has been a breeze, and all that remains is selling Gypsy before we embark on our next adventure. see entire route > >	I must go down the the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life; to the gull's way, and the whale's way, above winds like a whetted knife. Sea Fever, John Masefield