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well done jessie!!!

Hi Jessie,
I hope you had a great time travelling around the world.
You are a brave teenager.
Congratulations.
From Emily one of your fans

Hi Jessie,
I hope you had a great time travelling around the world.
You are a brave teenager.
Congratulations.
From Emily one of your fans

woohoo... wait a go girl!!!! you are one brave 16 year old and very talented... well done on what youve achieved... just watching the news and thats all they are talking about YOU!! not long to go now only a few hours..... congratulations once again and im sure you will go very far in your life.... p.s enjoy your own bed tonight at home and all the ammenities you have missed...lol...

Hi Jess,
Like the others I was compelled to return to the first blog and retrace/relive your voyage. God Bless you Dear you are a Champion.

Dreams are what you make happen in reality.
Jessica has set out on an amazing journey and is living her dream.
All we can say we support her with words and thoughts of encouragement and that she arrives safe , sound and happy.
She is a remarkable person.

Jessica,

I thought I would go right back to the Start- this is the Starting line.
Now just as you enter the Heads tomorrow I'll bet all sorts of things are going through your mind.
What a journey! You will be amazed as you read back through all the blogs.

As I followed you around Cape Horn and my students and I got onto your blog in the Atlantic and then around past Cape Agulhas, South Africa- they a blogged a little they became concerned about the Tsunami and thought you may have been caught up in that.
I said a different Ocean!
Then wandering across the Indian Ocean and making lazy circles in the sea when the wind dropped right-off.
Little did we know the dramas of the Southern Ocean- but I had a clue and blogged that I hoped it would be kind to you.
Then it started and my tears of relief when you finally came on air again and blogged you were on the Eastern side of Tassie!
Whew!
We cheered - I bet you even heard it!
So a geography lesson was apart of my students literacy lesson- learning does not happen in "boxes" but must be incorporated across the curriculum - and it has to be lived! My students have learnt alot about perseverence and following a dream without the excuses and...Buts...
You know that now. Your education has been perfect for you!
You just need rounding out now so keep at it - learning never stops!

Anyway enough of my silly ramblings.

God Bless you Jessica
PS. Your writing is marvellous - you must be proud - another lesson for my students!

Lyn QLD

Wow, Jess, only a few more days & your dream will have been achieved. CONGRATULATIONS! Can't wait for Saturday to watch you sail into Sydney Harbour. You are such an inspiration to Australia & the world. X.

Hiya, Jess,

I'm joining the group of Day One'rs who seem to be nostalgically going back to your pre-trip posts, wanting to touch-in with you and acknowledge all the great work you did to prepare for your 'round the world sail....and to congratulate you for your well-deserved accomplishments.

I love you so much for being WHO YOU ARE!! May the stars continue to align with you as you live your stellar life.

Cheers and God bless you,
Mary, Maine, USA
May 6, 2010

Hi Jess........Well might as well go back to the beginning of your magical journey and it has been magical for all of us sitting and reading about your trials and tribulations. What a wonderful young woman you are. May your future always be filled with happiness.. God Bless....... cheers Evie xxxxxxx

Hi Jess, I'm turning 18 and I think that is a great milestone in my life, but sailing the world is a far greater milestone! Keep a smile on your face. It's almost over!

jessica, meeting with you one day will be privilege. and talking with you about your journey will be the most interesting story i would hear. hope to sail with you one day!

Hi Jess
Have been following your trip with much interest.Not to much longer and you will be home with your family and like you they will be counting the sleeps.Am visiting Surfers Paradise for a few days and am looking out to Southport with a very heavy looking sky.Today my husband and I are going up to Maroochydore.Good luck for the future Liz

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Hi Jesse,
So this is where it all begins!!
A vision,a dream and all that preparation.I too have backtracked
so that I can get an appreciation for what went at this end.
AMAZING TO THINK WHERE YOU ARE NOW!!!
YOU HAVE ACHIEVED SO MUCH!!
WELL DONE
Sally in MELBOURNE

HI Jess,
i wish you all the best and i hope you have a merry christmas i read your blog lots andlots.
i saw the cup cakes you made and they looked nice.
any way,GOOD LUCK AND MERRY CHRISTMAS.
FROM MADDI CROSBY

hi hope you have a heap of fun and hope sccses nice and safe

Hi Jess, just wanted you to know that we have backtracked just to see where it all began for you. You are such a courageous girl & we don't quite know how you have the guts to do it. Even if we had as much experience as you we would probably hesitate sailing a yacht into the ocean. You truly are incredible! We are certainly going to be one of the thousands that welcome you home in Sydney.
Take care little one!
The McGraths Nowra NSW
J

Good luck!

Hi Jess. I am following you and living through you vicariously (from Nashville, Tennesee, USA). I wish you great adventure and success.

Hi Jessica, you have my support and best wishes on your journey we know you can do it...its all women power. (Estelle from the gold coast)xx

O.k. I get the idea. I have read this blog months ago, but you only get taken seriously as a Jess supporter if you left your graffiti on one of the earlier blogs. Done. RichieParis, your turn...
Victor C. Pankouken

heyy Jerry how ya going catching wild dogs i hope you have fun slaying those dragons but don't get yourself burnt by the chicken lazor beams!! shoop da whoop!!! how are you gonna get home though!! i hope you get married on your trip and make it home!! good luck jerry

Jessica...I hope I get the chance to meet you one day, I back tracked weeks ago and have read every blog you've posted to date, what a story what amazing journey so far, what next lies before you, if you are capable at 16 to do all this to plan in your own mind this journey of an adventurous spirit perhaps a restless spirit and a I see a humble one at that...may I suggest an idea that just popped into my mind, why don't you become an Astronaut, I'm not kidding, Andy Thomas, whom I've had the chance to meet, is an inspiration in his own right!....the next big adventure Jess is Mars!...at your current age if things work out for you you could very well become the first Australian Female Astronaut and if you play your cards right maybe just maybe a journey to Mars...I know it sounds well off the mark...but when you think about it...it's not impossible...and I think that's apart of your vocab...isn't!

Good luck my Girl..the future beckons....

Clint - Dandenong