Life Beyond the Beaker

Valentine's Day …it has been 1 year since I arrived in Carriacou and started an adventure or project shall we call it, on Cariad an inanimate object which I do, mostly, love. Most things come back to a story about love. The word love. The feeling of love. The love of adventure, a love of trying something new, a love for passion, a love for spending time with your partner. In Welsh, Cariad means Love in. How fitting.   Did we fail?   It's always hard to talk about failures. It's like an allergic response humans develop. I am taking this failed trip as a learning curve. It has taken me a year to even think about writing this blog. Maybe we didn't even fail? Yes, we failed the main mission of not crossing the wild Atlantic and bringing Cariad home to Glencoe, but we achieved so much to get to the point of even trying to cross, being mad enough to try and then get close, so close to achieving our goal.   People will always have an opinion about it, but how cou...