Too many to mention is my first thought.

One has to be finding my own personal limits when it comes to fatigue.  On board Oceans of Hope I hit the fatigue wall two times. I had never, ever been so inexplicably "gone", "not present", in a weird swirling dark hole. I could appreciate everyone around me, but felt they were all far away, or I was down in a dark trench, not being able to reach out or communicate with them. And my highlight is retrospectively realising that humour got me out of the pit of darkness that I was experiencing during this fatigue. I realised that humour helped me find a foothold to start to climb out. Thank you Bertram, it meant a lot later that day and still means a lot to me now as I write.

My favourite moment of discovery was when the crew hired a 4x4 on Nuku Hiva, visiting all remote bays and beaches. Then we wrote messages in the sand. That whole day gave us a feeling of  freedom after 16 days at sea.  But soon after, I felt like I missed the boat and what it stands for. I missed the boys and wanted them with us to share these moments away from the boat. The writing on the sand showed me how much this orange beacon meant to me, how important my voyage was to me.

After looking back at the experience, a thing that still sticks with me is the day when we read out our first blogs to each other. Very emotional for all. You see, I opened up on my voyage, I opened up to strangers face to face, friends and family via the blogs and to all the people following us.

The voyage taught me to get out there and explode in the sky like a firework, if I may quote Katy Perry, I feel that I am so lucky. To meet others whose lives are filled with so much more compromise than mine and they achieved greatness in their own way, or fulfilled a dream or part thereof. People who showed the world, or their family or just proved to themselves they are not useless, they are not lost in the murky waters of MS, they are still worthy, they are still able to achieve greatness and their hearts are still beating. Their courage, their strength and their humour was humbling to witness and I feel warm inside that they shared some of that greatness with me.