Midnight voyage on the Amazon

Tonight I have a great perspective: I can actually see how big the sky is and how small the world is.

Nighttime in Acapulco

The ship is almost entirely enveloped by the mountains in the bay. They’re small but close. In the daytime, it’s a gorgeous landscape. At night, it’s like being surrounded by a halo. The only way you can differentiate the black ground from the black sky is by the blanket of sequins someone draped across the …