Today, my one-hundredth birthday, marks the beginning of the first of several voyages that my family and I have planned in order to learn what’s really going on in our world today. This morning we launched our sailing ship, the Veritas into Lake Champlain, the commercial heart and major population center of the tiny nation of New Vermont. From here, we plan to make the first of our journeys, one in which we will visit that part of the former United States of North America (USNA) that is east of the Mississippi River, and also, we hope, the New Mayan Kingdom of the Yucatan and the Caribbean Confederation. Throughout our planned voyage, we intend to stop in cities, towns, and villages along lake, river, and ocean shores to see how our fellow Americans are really living today.
Accompanying me are fourteen members of my clan from four generations, including my eight-year old twin great-great grandsons, Castor and Pollux, and their younger sister, Helen. Of those on board, other than me, only my son (Ulysses), my daughter (Amelia), and their respective spouses (Penelope and Queequeg) remember what the world was like before the Hydrocarbon Age came to an abrupt end in 2030, the result of the final fossil fuel crisis that forever altered the way we live.
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