Hole In My Life, pg. 55-98

This is part 2. The first chapter is called "st. croix." Jack says that there is a large drug scene there. The cops don't even try to stop the dealings. All he did was smoke pot. Racial tensions were high there. Tourism dropped. Most people lost their jobs. His dad and he built crates for people. One day, this guy comes and asks for a crate with a secret section. He asked his dad what he thought of the guy. His dad said the guy was a dealer. There were few books available, but he read a lot of biographies. He decides he wants to interview the black racial leaders. He went in but didn't get much. They thought he was a spy. He left and went back to work. There, he met the guy, who is named Rik. Jack tells Rik to ship the crate with stuff in it to look less odd. Rik tells Jack to call him when he sees a red sailboat in the sea. Jack sees it and calls Rik. The boat is called Beaver. Rik asks if Jack wants to join him. Jack would earn 10 grand. He joins him. Then, he meets Hamilton. Hamilton says not to tell anyone!

The chapter is called "bon voyage." First, Hamilton and Jack are doing a couple practice runs. They agrounded a couple times. They finally got the hang of it and started going. Jack brought a lot of books along. Hamilton and Jack switched off and on sailing the boat. It was hard not to fall asleep. They got to Little Dog Island. Jack went ashore and dug and got 2,000 pounds of hash aka weed. After that, they went on there way to New York. The boat was boring, so Jack started going through it and found a log book. He started to log.

This chapter is called "ship's log." Jack takes a picture of Hamilton, and Hamilton threw the camera away because it was proof. This chapter is formated as journal entries. Hamilton has a gun but isn't very good. Jack misses talking to people. Hamilton and he talk. Hamilton says Jack is afraid of getting caught. Then, Jack gets sick by eating too much pot. Hamilton asks if Jack has taken a dump. He says he goes overboard. Hailton warns him not to because of the sharks. One day, Jack was swimming and Hamilton had the porthole open, so Jack reaches in and scares the crap out of Hamilton. He comes outside and shoots at Jack, but Jack's fine. Next, Jack complains that the boat won't move because there is no wind. One day, they meet a Japanese ship who gives them fuel. Now, they can sail all the without the wind. Then, there is a storm. When it's over, a coast guard plane passes over. Hamilton says it's nothing, so Jack waves hello at it. One day, it was hard to see and they sail into a coast guard base. The guard people were nice and showed them out. They were in New Jersey. They decided to get off at the port and call Rik.



I really like this book. It's so cool. I can't put it down. I just can't believe this really happened.