Showing posts with label West Indies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West Indies. Show all posts

Monday, May 9, 2016

MY JOURNAL: Glimpses into Vol. 5 (ages 12-13)

Jan 9, 1957 - June 4,1957 Capetown, St. Helena, Ascension, Fortaleza, Salinas, Barbados, Martinique, Dominica, Antigua, St. Maartens, St. Thomas, and the growing anticipation of approaching New York.
Cape Town, Feb. 5, 1957: Telegram from agent announces Jessica's Journal accepted for publication.
Geography lesson: Where does the Golden Gate Bridge GO?
Between Ascension and Brazil. ". . . other members living with us on the boat. Fleas, nasty, vicious little beasts with big appetites. Bed-bugs. Little red things that are so tiny they must be all teeth. Small, long, black ones, whose bite always swells to a huge lump and feels as if he hadn't let go. Regular ants--who may or may not bite; I don't know because so many others do. Biggest--and dangerous to the boat itself--BORERS."
Skipper has the cats tried for mutiny
Fortaleza, Brazil: My 13th birthday--on the Amazon!

Sunday, May 8, 2016

MY JOURNAL: Glimpses into Vol. 6 (ages 13-14)

June 5, 1957 - June 8, 1958 New York, Connecticut, Inland (intermittently), Mayaguana, Great Inagua, Jamaica, Canal Zone, Galapagos Is., Marquesas, Hawaii

This is the picture on the cover of To Russia with Love. I didn't have anything to do with choosing it and when I first saw the cover and realized the slide it had been printed from (above) was reversed, it would have cost $70 to have it changed. So I let it go. I'm not left-handed but who's going to notice?
(Later I chose a new cover for the book.)

Posing for Starlac ad--see below (photo by National News and Illustration Service)

New York: I arrange to do an ad for Starlac Instant Non-fat Dry Milk. . .
                    I hate non-fat instant dry milk. Why am I only 5-foot-one? Because I drank as little room-temperature
powdered milk as possible so I didn't  grow.
Mum and I are taking watches now







                        Besides two cats, Duchess and Amya, we now have a Galapagos tortoise, Jonathan Mushmouth, and a goat called, variously, Goaty-Goat, Frescavena, and Leetle One.,
After three years' sailing, we catch a fish!

April Fools' Day

Circumnavigation almost complete--I'm dreaming of food!