Water have ran under the bridge since my departure from Pangea.... I stopped in Florida visiting my friend Elaine and took some time by the ocean and under sun, swimming in the waves.... Paris arrived and we danced together... I met friends, worked with them, visited my uncle and aunty Michel and Marilene, adopted the Dufresne family, learn how to bake french baguette with Thomas ... took the train to Germany to visit my uncle Maxime and Birgit, ran thru autumn colored forest with my cousins and nephew...
Back in Paris... lasts working days, lasts days with friends, big thanks to All of YOU, friends and Family, who helped me in everyway continuing my trip around our planet....
Plane ride to see beautiful London where people mix with each other and the queen has her face filling a postcard... tube rides under ground tunnels... sea food dinner and dreaming time with my cousin Tristan and Nicole, laughs with Sarah... Save my cousin's appartment from fire and save ourself from big trouble... I saw myself in a movie scene like I always dreamed off... hanging in the air of a four floors building, jumping from roof to roof and climbing over the wall to get in thru the window....
Plane ride to Bangkok like a rock star luckily upgraded. I found myself sitting by a very nice young man from England departing for his first world trip...
Bangkok... bus ride with locals who barely spoke english, but managed to let me know where to stop and wich bus to take to get to my destination. Little, concrete room for myself for 5 euros, delicious pad thai, mango shake, meeting with Andy from England, Eslie from Netherland, Ethan from Israel, Jerome from France, Andreas from Germany, Manuel and Martin from Chile... great group and we enjoyed night gathering, visited Chinatown with Ethan, eating what ever was pleasing our eyes or stomach.... Night out on tuk tuk.... hang out with Bangkok pimp... watching the flood getting closer to the center...
Flight out of Thailand.... arrival in Bali... dryness replace flooded scenery... memories from the past, meeting with my friends, days spent under the sun burning my skin.... Death of my dear friend Joel de Bremond... Bali traditional wedding, monkey climbing over me......
Arrival in Sydney, ride with my plane friend Wayne... train ticket for Brisbane... stress out about my bad money exchange... walk thru Sydney Chinatown... 15 hours train ride to Brisbane... 4 hours bus ride to Maryborough... hugs and smiles with my nephew, nieces, Natalie and Philippe, my brother.
Camping trip to Fraser island for two days, gold panning and most irreplacable moments spent with my family...
Thank you
Love to all of you
Poema
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
Photos update
This is the link to my photos from the end of my stay 2011 in Port Angeles and my trip from Florida to Paris... I couldn't set as usual (I don't know why) so I'm trying this way...
Enjoy
Paris & Florida
https://picasaweb.google.com/109792885146265881762/FLoridaToParis?authuser=0&feat=directlink
Last of PA 2011
https://picasaweb.google.com/109792885146265881762/PA3?authuser=0&feat=directlink
Enjoy
Paris & Florida
https://picasaweb.google.com/109792885146265881762/FLoridaToParis?authuser=0&feat=directlink
Last of PA 2011
https://picasaweb.google.com/109792885146265881762/PA3?authuser=0&feat=directlink
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
322 days since I started this amazing trip, one of my lifetime experience... I decided to leave my paradisiac islands to see the other side of the world.... experience it and see it with my own eyes, with my own feeling... live the dreams that was growing inside me with me.... A big step, I still remember being at the travel agency buying my ticket, shaking and wondering if I should or shouldn't buy it now... then I thought... It's now or never... So I planned my ittinerary with Vaimiti, my travel agent who became my friend. Tickets bought.... flying away and seeing the world... and here I am in Australia, with my brother and family... and looking back at the three hundred and something days spent on this earth, in the air, on the water, smiled shared, tears, heart beat, breath taking moments, peaceful sceneries, alone, with friends, with the stars, with myself....... Such an amazing adventure.... but it seems to never stops because I'm alive and this trip is a never ending story because it's my story....... I'm here with little money left in my pockets, nothing that I really own.... but all that matters to me is being alive, living my dream, trusting my heart and life....... because that's what life is all about.... my life... that's what all matters to me.... right here, right now....
Friday, October 7, 2011
Autumn...
Autumn arrived with subtle steps... sun rised to her last breath to warm our lost hearts... wind shook my branches and blew my hair... I became one with the road... clouds are hidding my rays and I try to shine thru the fog... from a ray of sun I became tears of rain.... is autumn that sad...
Germany... part of myself came from this country... churches and castles are my playground... I couldn't find myself here anymore... my german root is burried deep under the earth... holding my tree in a way... but the road is calling... to Paris... to the ocean... to nowhere but here...
Love to my uncle Maxim and Birgit... to my cousins... thanks for every moment shared...
Poema
Germany... part of myself came from this country... churches and castles are my playground... I couldn't find myself here anymore... my german root is burried deep under the earth... holding my tree in a way... but the road is calling... to Paris... to the ocean... to nowhere but here...
Love to my uncle Maxim and Birgit... to my cousins... thanks for every moment shared...
Poema
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Paris... city of Love
I biked thru her veins, saw her beauties and felt her shaking under me... sun shining over her golden layers and water flowing thru her body... she is mysterious and slowly undiscovering part of her soul... time flies, a café around a table on a terasse stops Parisians from running... three hundred and sixty eight cheeses, delicately melting their hearts, baguette crackles coming out of the oven, patisseries jewels catch our appetite and artistic sense.... lovers come and go hand in hand, kissing as the Doineau couple... art is love and Paris inspire love, aspire love...
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Deck and departure
When I started to work on the deck, I thought... "humm it's going to take me two weeks and I will have a lot of time to work on other projects..." well it didn't really worked like that.... as always on a boat you have to multiply everything by 3, time, money and fun ;-)
I spent a month and a half in PA and had found a second hometown. All the people I met were welcoming and very nice to me. About 20000 souls live there, landscape is amazing, islands, mountains, water, sea, rivers, beaches, forest... all I needed to be happy with Pangea in USA.
I finished working on the deck at the end of august, with a plane ticket as a time limit. My saving were going very low and I had to go to Europe to work and fly to use my world trip ticket.
Eric (www.modernyachtjoinery.com) taught me how to prepare the deck for caulking and helped me finish the work. It was great working with him. He is passionate about wood, it inspired me everyday, he became a friend to me. I enjoyed cooking lunch everyday for us. Friends were giving me salmon, shrimp & vegetables. Kurt and Ava, friends I met thru Martin, became good friends, we had a special connection.
I went sailing with Rob for a full moon bay cruise, full moon kayak adventure with Kurt in Fresh Water bay, cook for Mickael and his crew at his place, went to Neah Bay to see a canoe race with Eric, went to Crescent lake with Paul, Sophie and her family visited me on Pangea, sailed on Pangea with Kurt and Ava for the last night in PA in the bay....
I had beautiful days in PA and felt like I could live there for a while. Sun was shinning everyday.
Pangea stays in PA under the good care of my friends. I could leave with a rested mind.
Paul gave me a ride to the airport in Seattle. I kind of adopted him as my american uncle...
At the airport, Stephen, one of my best friend, came to see me. I was so happy.
I met Joel at the airport, an amazing French man, 64 years old, who's traveling around the world on his bike. Someday in France, when he was riding his bicycle, someone run him over and he was left on the road, dead. By chance, a fireman found him and saved his life. He spent days in coma and had some injuries and became invalid. He couldn't work on his vineyard anymore, sold everything and decided to bike all the way to the north tip of Norway. This trip inspired him to go for a world trip and he decided to leave for two years with his tricycle. I spend the night at the airport waiting for our airplane with him. He inspired me to the most, touched my heart. He is a hero to me, never gave up on his dreams even though everybody was telling him he shouldn't go. I cried seeing him leaving walking with his cane, thinking I could never give up on my dreams...
On the plane, I met Gina from Los Angeles. She is Mexican and she owns a travel agency in USA. She dreams of sailing... I told her about my sail boat and she said she would love to sail with me.... That would be a really cool experience !!! I invited her to come to PA next year and sail with me to the island...
I arrived in Miami around 6am on the 31st of august. No seat available for Paris until the 5th of september. All flight were full because of the hurricane. I took a bus ticket to Melbourne and visit Noah's parents. I spend almost a week there, enjoying Elaine company, the beach, warm water, playing in the waves and my visit with Ran, Noah's dad. A great break from Pangea before Paris. Smells and weather reminding me of Moorea, warm sand under my skin, sun and wind putting me to sleep... dancing with the waves, body surfing with millions of fishes, making waves of fish... it was an amazing experience.
I drove the bus back to Miami on the 5th to catch my plane to Paris... sun left her golden color on my skin and I was re-energized...
I met Madeleine on the plane, she is the director of Lalique shop in Beverly Hills. I told her about my adventure and we became friends. She was really nice and I was happy to sit by her.
I hug her goodbye and run out of the plane to catch the RER (train to Paris). The movie I worked for last year in French Polynesia, "L'ordre et la Morale"(the Rebellion) was on show avant-premiere at the Lido, the film maker and main actor, Mathieu Kassovitz, invited me. I had to be there in one hour. I arrived an hour late but made it inside even though I had all my bags. The guys at the entrance and the director were nice enough to let me in and watch my bags. The movie was amazing, every memories came back to me, so much work and heart put into it... It is strong and the pictures were striking, I cried it was emotional and deep... I'm proud to have work on it. I didn't know who I was going to meet there and everybody I saw was a great surprise.
I took the metro to my uncle and aunty. They live in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Walking back there was once again a weird feeling of flashback. The last time I was here, I was with Noah, caring 120 kg of luggage, surfboards and loads of camera and gear. It was snowy and cold....
The next day I met my friends Marco and Sylvie, stayed at their place and felt like being with family.
I met friends all week long... Traveling by metro started to be heavy on my psycho and I decided to cross town by bike on saturday to visit Thibault, whom I haven't seen since my departure for Mexico. I met his little family, the cute Amaya and the beautiful Marie-Claire...
Being in Paris this time alone is a different experience from the previous visit I did.
I'm working tomorrow with Marco and Sylvie until wednesday....
Hope all is well for all of you and your family...
A bientot
Bisou
Poema
I spent a month and a half in PA and had found a second hometown. All the people I met were welcoming and very nice to me. About 20000 souls live there, landscape is amazing, islands, mountains, water, sea, rivers, beaches, forest... all I needed to be happy with Pangea in USA.
I finished working on the deck at the end of august, with a plane ticket as a time limit. My saving were going very low and I had to go to Europe to work and fly to use my world trip ticket.
Eric (www.modernyachtjoinery.com) taught me how to prepare the deck for caulking and helped me finish the work. It was great working with him. He is passionate about wood, it inspired me everyday, he became a friend to me. I enjoyed cooking lunch everyday for us. Friends were giving me salmon, shrimp & vegetables. Kurt and Ava, friends I met thru Martin, became good friends, we had a special connection.
I went sailing with Rob for a full moon bay cruise, full moon kayak adventure with Kurt in Fresh Water bay, cook for Mickael and his crew at his place, went to Neah Bay to see a canoe race with Eric, went to Crescent lake with Paul, Sophie and her family visited me on Pangea, sailed on Pangea with Kurt and Ava for the last night in PA in the bay....
I had beautiful days in PA and felt like I could live there for a while. Sun was shinning everyday.
Pangea stays in PA under the good care of my friends. I could leave with a rested mind.
Paul gave me a ride to the airport in Seattle. I kind of adopted him as my american uncle...
At the airport, Stephen, one of my best friend, came to see me. I was so happy.
I met Joel at the airport, an amazing French man, 64 years old, who's traveling around the world on his bike. Someday in France, when he was riding his bicycle, someone run him over and he was left on the road, dead. By chance, a fireman found him and saved his life. He spent days in coma and had some injuries and became invalid. He couldn't work on his vineyard anymore, sold everything and decided to bike all the way to the north tip of Norway. This trip inspired him to go for a world trip and he decided to leave for two years with his tricycle. I spend the night at the airport waiting for our airplane with him. He inspired me to the most, touched my heart. He is a hero to me, never gave up on his dreams even though everybody was telling him he shouldn't go. I cried seeing him leaving walking with his cane, thinking I could never give up on my dreams...
On the plane, I met Gina from Los Angeles. She is Mexican and she owns a travel agency in USA. She dreams of sailing... I told her about my sail boat and she said she would love to sail with me.... That would be a really cool experience !!! I invited her to come to PA next year and sail with me to the island...
I arrived in Miami around 6am on the 31st of august. No seat available for Paris until the 5th of september. All flight were full because of the hurricane. I took a bus ticket to Melbourne and visit Noah's parents. I spend almost a week there, enjoying Elaine company, the beach, warm water, playing in the waves and my visit with Ran, Noah's dad. A great break from Pangea before Paris. Smells and weather reminding me of Moorea, warm sand under my skin, sun and wind putting me to sleep... dancing with the waves, body surfing with millions of fishes, making waves of fish... it was an amazing experience.
I drove the bus back to Miami on the 5th to catch my plane to Paris... sun left her golden color on my skin and I was re-energized...
I met Madeleine on the plane, she is the director of Lalique shop in Beverly Hills. I told her about my adventure and we became friends. She was really nice and I was happy to sit by her.
I hug her goodbye and run out of the plane to catch the RER (train to Paris). The movie I worked for last year in French Polynesia, "L'ordre et la Morale"(the Rebellion) was on show avant-premiere at the Lido, the film maker and main actor, Mathieu Kassovitz, invited me. I had to be there in one hour. I arrived an hour late but made it inside even though I had all my bags. The guys at the entrance and the director were nice enough to let me in and watch my bags. The movie was amazing, every memories came back to me, so much work and heart put into it... It is strong and the pictures were striking, I cried it was emotional and deep... I'm proud to have work on it. I didn't know who I was going to meet there and everybody I saw was a great surprise.
I took the metro to my uncle and aunty. They live in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Walking back there was once again a weird feeling of flashback. The last time I was here, I was with Noah, caring 120 kg of luggage, surfboards and loads of camera and gear. It was snowy and cold....
The next day I met my friends Marco and Sylvie, stayed at their place and felt like being with family.
I met friends all week long... Traveling by metro started to be heavy on my psycho and I decided to cross town by bike on saturday to visit Thibault, whom I haven't seen since my departure for Mexico. I met his little family, the cute Amaya and the beautiful Marie-Claire...
Being in Paris this time alone is a different experience from the previous visit I did.
I'm working tomorrow with Marco and Sylvie until wednesday....
Hope all is well for all of you and your family...
A bientot
Bisou
Poema
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Life in P.A.
Almost a month since I got back from Mexico... I focused my mind on the teak deck when I arrived and stayed alone as I wished... quietness and peace brought me back to my soul and I could find my path again...
Eric and Nolwen's visit gently walk me out of my alone stage and now I'm back on track... I can feel the magic again :)
I went to a roast corn party sunday with some friends. Andrew, the owner of the house invites over at his place around 400 persons each first sunday of august since 14 years, for a roast corn party. He asks his friends to come with new people each year.
On the road sign, some corns are hanging.. cars are parked all along the drive way... people here and there, a giant BBQ full of corn. I arrive with Mickeal, Mariela, Jim and Linda. I tried to make a fondant au chocolat but it became a browny, so I made a salad with homemade vinaigrette. Jim and Linda brought a carrot cake, Mariela made a tiramitsu and Mickeal a greek salad.
I help myself and as waiting for some BBQ fish, Andrew introduces me a young man, telling "here someone that speaks french !!" I was eating some salad and got kind of surprised by the whole situation.. I could stop giggling as I was thinking that I probably have some salad leave on my teeth...
The young man stared at me with and asked me in french "why are you laughing ??? are you making fun of me ? "NO ! I just enjoy laughing... we started to talk and he tells me... "My biggest dream is to have a sailboat and sail around the world"... "You have to come visit my sailboat" I told him... then I ask... what's your name ? "Camille"... I smiled, couldn't stop smiling... Camille is the name of the boy I met 16 years ago on the beach in Moorea. He sailed with his parents from Vancouver, Canada to French Polynesia. He was special to me and I never forgot him. He promised me he would be back... but never did hahaha... When I bought Pangea with Martin, Martin decided that our first destination would be Vancouver island... While working on Pangea to get her ready to come up the coast, I thought about Camille and tried to look for him on internet since I couldn't find his phone number. It would have been good to see him again and especialy arrive there on my sailboat since he never showed up with his !!! hahaha !!!
I found him on his wedding day, I was so excited to know that he was getting married and to see him again. We met the day after his wedding and I met the woman of his life, the beautiful Elise... she became special to me... I was so happy to see them, see Camille... he didn't change much just got taller (he use to be shorter than me).
Camille, my new friend from France, and I left the party to visit Pangea. I was happy to show him Pangea, my dream that came true... we have shared dreams and meeting him wasn't random. We were meant to :-).
He loved Pangea, of course !!! She is beautiful and such a great boat !!!! The BESSSSTT boat in the world... for me :-)
We drove back to the party and spent the whole day togeteher. He was such a matured thinking kid for being 15. We talked about life, had some corn and delicious home made pizza.
The party was very mellow and relaxing, people of all age, food everywhere and drinks cooling in a iced pool...
I left at sunset... Camille promised me he would do everything to realize his dream and see me again... how funny !!! I keep smiling thinking about it, thinking about life, how it is special when we open our heart, listen, feel and live...
Yesterday I visited Jim and Linda who invited me to their house to pick some lettuce from their garden and go berry picking. I arrived there around noon. They moved in P.A. a little more than a year ago and started a vegetable garden. Lettuce, tomato, chard, berries, fruit trees... and much more. With Jim, we drove to a U pick farm. I always wanted to experience U-pick farms and I was really excited because I could pick and eat !!! that's the whole fun about it ! So we did, so much fun, I had a full belly at the end... and 5 pounds of berries !!! yeah !!! It such a clever idea to have these U-pick farm. People come with family or alone and enjoy the experience to the fullest... I loved it !
We came back home and saw some deer. I layed on the grass, I miss is sometimes on Pangea... Jim brought us an appetizer plate, chedaar cheese of all kind and smoked salmon... DELICIOUS !!! sweet cherries from their young tree, sweet and melting in my mouth. Dinner time... We picked the vegetable we needed from the garden and we went finishing for trouts in their pond. It was so much fun !!! I tried to get a picture of our first catch and while posing with the fish in front of the camera, being a dork as I do very well, the fish got off my hands and went back in the water !!! Oups.... We got 3 fishes but it wasn't as easy as I'm sure they have been told that we were fishing ... :)
I prepared the fish in papillote and some fried potatoes from the garden, Linda prepared the chard and desert... Delicious dinner, beautiful friends and an amazing view over the mountains...
Eric and Nolwen's visit gently walk me out of my alone stage and now I'm back on track... I can feel the magic again :)
I went to a roast corn party sunday with some friends. Andrew, the owner of the house invites over at his place around 400 persons each first sunday of august since 14 years, for a roast corn party. He asks his friends to come with new people each year.
On the road sign, some corns are hanging.. cars are parked all along the drive way... people here and there, a giant BBQ full of corn. I arrive with Mickeal, Mariela, Jim and Linda. I tried to make a fondant au chocolat but it became a browny, so I made a salad with homemade vinaigrette. Jim and Linda brought a carrot cake, Mariela made a tiramitsu and Mickeal a greek salad.
I help myself and as waiting for some BBQ fish, Andrew introduces me a young man, telling "here someone that speaks french !!" I was eating some salad and got kind of surprised by the whole situation.. I could stop giggling as I was thinking that I probably have some salad leave on my teeth...
The young man stared at me with and asked me in french "why are you laughing ??? are you making fun of me ? "NO ! I just enjoy laughing... we started to talk and he tells me... "My biggest dream is to have a sailboat and sail around the world"... "You have to come visit my sailboat" I told him... then I ask... what's your name ? "Camille"... I smiled, couldn't stop smiling... Camille is the name of the boy I met 16 years ago on the beach in Moorea. He sailed with his parents from Vancouver, Canada to French Polynesia. He was special to me and I never forgot him. He promised me he would be back... but never did hahaha... When I bought Pangea with Martin, Martin decided that our first destination would be Vancouver island... While working on Pangea to get her ready to come up the coast, I thought about Camille and tried to look for him on internet since I couldn't find his phone number. It would have been good to see him again and especialy arrive there on my sailboat since he never showed up with his !!! hahaha !!!
I found him on his wedding day, I was so excited to know that he was getting married and to see him again. We met the day after his wedding and I met the woman of his life, the beautiful Elise... she became special to me... I was so happy to see them, see Camille... he didn't change much just got taller (he use to be shorter than me).
Camille, my new friend from France, and I left the party to visit Pangea. I was happy to show him Pangea, my dream that came true... we have shared dreams and meeting him wasn't random. We were meant to :-).
He loved Pangea, of course !!! She is beautiful and such a great boat !!!! The BESSSSTT boat in the world... for me :-)
We drove back to the party and spent the whole day togeteher. He was such a matured thinking kid for being 15. We talked about life, had some corn and delicious home made pizza.
The party was very mellow and relaxing, people of all age, food everywhere and drinks cooling in a iced pool...
I left at sunset... Camille promised me he would do everything to realize his dream and see me again... how funny !!! I keep smiling thinking about it, thinking about life, how it is special when we open our heart, listen, feel and live...
Yesterday I visited Jim and Linda who invited me to their house to pick some lettuce from their garden and go berry picking. I arrived there around noon. They moved in P.A. a little more than a year ago and started a vegetable garden. Lettuce, tomato, chard, berries, fruit trees... and much more. With Jim, we drove to a U pick farm. I always wanted to experience U-pick farms and I was really excited because I could pick and eat !!! that's the whole fun about it ! So we did, so much fun, I had a full belly at the end... and 5 pounds of berries !!! yeah !!! It such a clever idea to have these U-pick farm. People come with family or alone and enjoy the experience to the fullest... I loved it !
We came back home and saw some deer. I layed on the grass, I miss is sometimes on Pangea... Jim brought us an appetizer plate, chedaar cheese of all kind and smoked salmon... DELICIOUS !!! sweet cherries from their young tree, sweet and melting in my mouth. Dinner time... We picked the vegetable we needed from the garden and we went finishing for trouts in their pond. It was so much fun !!! I tried to get a picture of our first catch and while posing with the fish in front of the camera, being a dork as I do very well, the fish got off my hands and went back in the water !!! Oups.... We got 3 fishes but it wasn't as easy as I'm sure they have been told that we were fishing ... :)
I prepared the fish in papillote and some fried potatoes from the garden, Linda prepared the chard and desert... Delicious dinner, beautiful friends and an amazing view over the mountains...
Life is beautiful and I'm happy to be here, happy to be... simply...
Love
Poema
Poema
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