For ten years – except for a few days when internet access was impossible – no matter where I have been SR published every day. It has been done from deep beneath Red Square, Pakistani internet cafes, London pubs, and more than once from an open boat, as I bent hunched under a tarp pelted by rain in a tossing night sea. But beginning with today and, for the next 12 days until Sunday 27th July, SR will go dark. Thanks to the gracious hospitality of a friend I will be cruising in Northern Canadian and Alaskan waters on his very fine boat, out of touch with the net. It is a trip I have thought about and wanted to do for 25 years. A life experience to be long-remembered. If you are an SR subscriber nothing will come into your mailbox during that time and, then, SR will begin again on its regular seven day schedule. I wish all my readers the best of summers. This will certainly be one of mine. — Stephan