Pre-Voyage Interview Questions - Jen

What are you most looking forward to/excited about?

Jen: Living a life without laundry, cleaning, driving the minivan, or planning/cooking meals.  I honestly don’t know what I’ll do with all of my free time!

What are you most anxious about?

Jen: In no particular order (I have a lot of anxiety):

1)Getting seasick,

2) Losing Guthrie,

3) Euchre eating another corncob (or other inedible) and having to make veterinary…or end of life… decisions from overseas,

4) Missing out on something awesome in Fort Collins or at CSU—FOMO!!,

5) Chris having a heart attack (this lives with me wherever I am but seems particularly nerve wracking on a ship and away from home),

6) Accidentally eating a mango and having a major allergic reaction

7) Feeling embarrassed if the kids act badly on the ship or in port,

8) Sharing a 100-square-foot room with Chris and the boys (including Wally’s stinky feet)

What is a risk you are going to take?

Jen: Likely risk – I’d like to start the “1^st annual Semester at Sea Treadmill marathon/half-marathon” (training throughout the voyage with the actual event toward the end of the voyage). I hate running on the treadmill, but I like things that are ridiculous and funny and this seems to be both.  Also, since I might be the only person to participate, I could get a 1^st place medal and a t-shirt. #goals

Possible risk (but feels significantly more risky to me) – shave my head when we cross the equator for Neptune Day. YOLO!

What is the most important thing to you that we should pack?

Jen: Jump drives with all the academic materials needed for my classes

What are you saddest about leaving behind?

Jen: Euchre the wonder pug (obvi)

How will you know if this adventure was a "success?"

Jen: I truly hope the voyage is disruptive in the sense that it causes us to reflect on our current life/lifestyle and align our behavior as closely as possible with our values and dreams.

Jen, age 42, Dec. 2019