Thank you for the well wishes, it's been a while in the planning, but it's coming together. A friend of mine did the SPOT thing on a trip in the Pacific last summer, great thing. I'll post the link when I'm ready on my profile. The Blog might be nice too, but I'm a little gun shy about having too much out here on the "inter-webs"..
Cheers!

Good for you on your dream. Please start a blog, I'll follow your voyage. If you need info on the blog, just give a shout...Michael..