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201. Gardner McKay

Fri Nov 15, 2024, 08:56 PM

Friday

Tales of the South Pacific.
Had a map of the world on my bedroom wall with the Pacific Ocean highlighted.
Swore that I would wander there. Curiously, that’s one of the few areas I have not explored.

Oops, title of the show was Adventures in Paradise. It was supposedly based on the Michener book, but so very loosely that is wasn’t. It still had great video of sailing the South Pacific.

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