Got word from my Dad last night that an old college professor of mine had recently died. Eric Larsen. Eric is such a vivid memory in my past; thoughts and images came immediately to me. I cannot think of Eric and not remember the several-week trip we took to Belize and Guatemala, way back in what…1984, 1985? That adventure (the word “trip” does not do it justice) was a remarkable time, and I will always remember it. Diving in the Caribbean; flying into El Salvador and greeted by machine-gun totting security; climbing the Temple of the Jaguar in Tikal; walking at night in the jungle through Seine Bight, howler-monkeys, crocodiles, tarantulas…yikes. What an adventure. Sail on Professor Larsen! Keep fighting the good fight, you crazy old Norwegian Pirate!