A nice break from everything

Always look on the bright side. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

Well, this could have ended badly.

Last month, two men set off from the Solomon Islands in a 23-foot boat with an outboard motor, planning to head to a town about 140 miles south, navigating by watching the islands they passed off their port side.

“We have done the trip before and it should have been OK,” one of the men said later.

But they ran into heavy …