Voyage Photos

Elena and Meg voyage

Elena in her room in Ivanovo. Having no clue what's ahead. Dreaming only of freedom, November 2005

Elena and Meg voyage

Meg's and Elena's tickets to Kiev

Elena and Meg voyage

Elena (second from the right) with her mother, father and McDonald's security guard, in Kiev, Ukraine

Elena and Meg voyage

Elena's phone was nearly lost when Elena's mother took it from her by force during the attack. Today, it still has 42 SMS messages that Meg sent Elena.

Elena and Meg voyage

Elena getting used to her new, free, self, in her and Meg's flat in Kiev, Ukraine

Elena and Meg voyage

If you read Talking to the Moon you know what this is. Elena and Meg made a copy of Meg's ring for Elena in Victoria

Elena and Meg voyage

Meg likes what she sees while examining Boadicea she considers buying, Marmaris, Turkey

Elena and Meg voyage

Elena revels in her newly found freedom to do what she likes, unknown to her in Russia, Marmaris, Turkey

Elena and Meg voyage

Toy rabbit Elena brought to Kiev for Meg. Pictured here in Boadicea's cabin

Elena and Meg voyage

Elena's first time at the helm, Marmaris bay, Turkey

Elena and Meg voyage

Approaching Canary islands, Elena wonders if she will be admitted, Atlantic ocean

Elena and Meg voyage

Meg fixes the spinnaker, middle of Atlantic

Elena and Meg voyage

Elena makes an entry in the boat's journal, crossing Atlantic

Elena and Meg voyage

Meg marks Boadicea's position on the chart, Atlantic

Elena and Meg voyage

The left cork marks Elena and Meg's 8 months together. The one on the right, them making half the distance across the Atlantic. Photographed years later

Elena and Meg voyage

Elena's watch, crossing the Caribbean

Elena and Meg voyage

Meg attempts to resurrect the watermaker, North Pacific

Elena and Meg voyage

Elena during one of the winter storms, North Pacific

Elena and Meg voyage

Meg makes a report via satellite, North Pacific

Elena and Meg voyage

Elena, exhausted, North Pacific

Elena and Meg voyage

Elena points at her and Meg's position on the chart, only several hundred nautical miles left to Vancouver island!