Here it is – a taste of Audrey’s blogging!
I REMEMBER BEING ONE of the skeptics.
Build a ship in the middle of nowhere, haul it to Lake Superior in Duluth and then eventually sail across the Atlantic Ocean to Norway.
Who thinks that is possible?
Robert Asp.
Thirty years ago the Hjemkomst, a ship built by this Moorhead, Minnesota, junior high school counselor, with the help of family and friends, accomplished that 4,700-mile feat, proving the skeptics wrong.
By then, Asp had died, passing away in December 1980 at the age of 57 from leukemia. But his family pursued his dream, launching the ship on May 11, 1982, for the journey back to the Asp family Motherland on the Hjemkomst, which translates from Norwegian into English as “homecoming.”
Hearing the Hjemkomst story many years ago is one thing. Seeing Asp’s ship permanently docked in the Hjemkomst Center in Moorhead is another. Only by viewing the ship and…
View original post 465 more words
Making the mundane entertaining.
A fine day for an epiphany 
Wonderful post to reblog!!!!
It’s the one that jumped to mind when I first thought about this idea. Such a great story.
Amazing. I can’t imagine sailing all that way in such a small boat. It doesn’t look like it would be a comfortable journey, either xx
I agree! Better him than me! I can barely swim so I’d be a gonner for sure.