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 weather. Their GPS stopped working. And when they were no longer sure what direction they were heading, they shut the engine off to conserve fuel.

Then, they began to drift—in nearly the opposite direction from what they’d intended.

They survived for 29 days, at first eating oranges that they’d brought along, and when those ran out, scavenging coconuts from the sea.

I had no idea that there are coconuts floating in the Pacific Ocean, but I suppose it makes sense. This was the only time they’d turn the engine on: navigating towards coconuts when they spotted them.

They drank rainwater, and “prayed, day and night.”

“God gave us this thought o…