Well, the journey has begun- deep in south Alabama in a small town they call Bayou la Batre. A sticky-humid-shrimp-reeking-small town with fried food, wild hogs and southern drawls as thick as the butter on the cornbread. Located in the bayou is SeaSchool- a Coastgaurd approved school offering training for all sorts of safety courses for seafarers. They offer programs as basic as 5 days, to programs as intensive as 30 days. SeaSchool draws men from all over the country seekin

We aren't called to be comfortable. Life itself begins in "the uncomfortable." The moment we come out of that warm, comfortable womb that we spent nine safe months in we are catapulted into a horrifying frenzy of light and fresh air and sounds and smiles and tears. Doctors spanking us, and nurses prodding us and people pulling at our limbs and washing us off, and our mothers saying hello. Our first moments of life as human beings are spent in utterly foreign discomfort. "Wher