The Tourist Trail by John Yunker

Author:John Yunker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Penguins, Patagonia, Penguin Research, Whales, Whaling, Sea Shepherd, Magellanic, Romance, FBI, Antarctica, Polar Cap
Publisher: Ashland Creek Press
Published: 2010-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

Ethan

After seven days at sea, Ethan was no longer exploring the Emperor of the Seas but pacing it. Annie had not boarded in San Diego, as he’d hoped. Yet he stayed on the cruise ship as it made its slow passage down the Chilean side of Patagonia and through the Strait of Magellan. With every new port came renewed hope that she might join him. Perhaps she’d missed the boat back in San Diego and had planned to meet him in another location. Or perhaps she’d gotten a job on the CDA boat—which allowed him to believe that he might see her along the way. He’d been spending a lot of time on the CDA web site and had learned that Ushuaia was a port of call for all vessels heading to Antarctica. It was a place where an anti-whaling boat like the Arctic Tern could pull up next to a cruise ship like the Emperor of the Seas.

A part of him knew that the odds of either scenario coming true were incalculable. But another part reminded himself that random things happened every day. That he and Annie being matched up in the first place was one of those random things.

After pacing the upper deck until well after dark, he returned to his cabin. He’d left the sliding balcony door open, and the room was freezing. He walked outside and blinked into the darkness. Whitecaps reflected the moon, and the ocean looked like static on a black TV screen. Ethan closed his eyes and rested his head on his arms, and he could see her again, sleeping next to him. Her tiny shoulders. The light tufts of hair on the back of her neck.

He opened his laptop and checked his email again. He scanned the subject lines, the email addresses, but she had not written back. Perhaps she wanted to surprise him or, more likely, the CDA boat had no Internet access. Eventually, however, she would be in port and would find her way to an Internet café. She would write to him and apologize for not being there, for all the money he spent on the cruise, for the cruise-issue parka he’d mailed to her last available address. But his efforts were not in vain, she would say. She would greet him when he returned, and they would give it one more try.

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