just at dusk. it was about 28 degrees, whereas i think it was 24 or 25 degrees in 1777. we got out of a nice warm car to walk down to the shore wearing good down coats and we stood there with those big, green rollers coming in and the clouds looking very ominous and the wind blowing, and we were freezing. we thought to ourselves, how in the world did they have the courage to do it? adams had never set foot on a ship before. the crossing would take weeks, perhaps months, if they made it. and as it turned out, everything that could have gone wrong went 