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Jul 2024
49m 54s

Sailing Alone Around the World, by Capt....

SHARON HANDY
About this episode

Let’s relax and sleep with more from this solo journey by sailboat. This time, we cross the Atlantic, serenade dolphins, and…a seafaring ghost saves our narrator from a cheese-induced fever? Sure, why not. I don’t write them, friends.

 

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