Two Weeks to Go!

It's the twenty-first week, with a new grand total distanced travelled of 58,007 kilometers! Which means that 2,265 pages were added to last weeks total of 55,742.

There was no stop in northern China for me this journey! I'm swimming in the Sea of Okhotsk which is:

• part of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaidō to the far south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast (including the Shantar Islands) along the west and north. The northeast corner is Shelikhov Gulf.
• it covers 611,000 sq.mi. (1,583,000 km².), with an average depth of 2,818 feet (859 metres). Its maximum depth is 11,063 feet (3,372 metres).
• in winter, navigation on the Sea of Okhotsk becomes difficult, or even impossible, due to the formation of large ice floes, because the large amount of freshwater from the Amur River lowers the amount of salt in the water and raises the freezing point of the sea.

I'm also getting closer and closer to the North American continent! It looks like you'll send me not on one round trip, but two trips around the globe! This is fantastic!