Ben Horst Post 3

After finishing this book, one theme seemed most important to me. The author repeatedly explained the Gulf Stream as a highway or passageway to freedom. It was almost as if the sole purpose of the Stream was to carry Cubans across the straights. During one's life, there are many opportunities to succeed, and many times, one leads to another. Like a road leads one from one destination to another. As I read about the current, I couldn't help thinking of it in two ways. Obviously as a physical ocean current, but also as a pathway, a road, or a choice in one's life's direction towards freedom. From this, I believe that there will always be choices to choose the right path, possibly less obvious than an actual path across a sea though. Along that path, there will be more choices along the way, some leading farther toward the intended destination, others changing the original course, but no matter what, it will always lead somewhere.