http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=820447Jill D., I wondered if your yacht traveling in the Pacific was done much in the way of the author's travel in the Indian Ocean, and if you found, as the author did, that slow travel "has mainly been about learning again and again and again that most people are poor, a very few people are exceedingly rich and doing nicely, corruption is normal, clean water is precious and good people everywhere are doing what they can."