As most of you know, Brandon and I didn't originally plan on traveling through India this winter...it was more of a "plan B".After lifeguarding ended, Brandon completed the courses for his Captain's license, we both took the STCW-95 course (the minimum qualification to crew on a yacht), and hopped a plane to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida with every intention of joining the super yacht community as crew.
Unfortunately, we picked the wrong year to break into ANY industry. We pounded the docks in Florida for about two months until we were, finally, offered a freelance position on a yacht over New Year's. The good news was that it was a great experience (hard work, but great) and the owners and captain offered us another freelance position in the Bahamas for about 6 weeks from May to June. The bad news was that the job situation in Florida was as dry as ever after the new year...we're talking experienced 1600 ton Captains out of work. So we took those lemons and made our version of lemonade...
We accepted the job in Bahamas and got the heck out of Florida!
We flew to New York, NY for a week to sort out our India visas with a quick stop in Syracuse to visit some friends from USC. Then, Jan 20th we hopped on an Emirates Airlines Airbus A380 (Brandon was really excited about this) to Chennai, India via Dubai, UAE.
Brandon's brother, Jason, met up with us in Chennai and we'll have exactly two months before Jason heads further east to Indonesia and Brandon and I fly back to L.A. to requalify for lifeguards before heading to the Bahamas.
