Remembering Sal's Many Stages of Beardliness

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Sal’s Stages of Beardliness

Over the past 8 months Sal and I both feel that we have changed in many ways. However the most obvious changes to everyone has been the growth of hair on Sal’s face and head. We look back at some of the earlier pictures and we have to giggle.

He’s a recap of changes to his beard and hair…

Our first night on the trip. Sal had previously tried to ‘trim’ the sides of his beard with a cheap old razor, requiring him to even out the missing chunks later with an electric razor giving him a goatee appearance to his beard.

A couple weeks later and the beard was starting to fill in nicely.

This was the caveman stage of his beard.

A stunning resemblance to Blackbeard the pirate.

This picture was taken November 1st, about 6 months of hair growth. I remember wanting to take this picture because he just couldn't get his hair to stay down.

Very full and thick beard.

Hahaha I took this man to Disney World...

Bam! My Christmas present. 10 years younger! It was a bit sensitive for a few days, and I honestly couldn't stop staring at him and giggling. It took a few days to even out the tan.

He still had the long hair, and even let the beard grow back a bit.

The longest his hair got. He flew back to Canada a few days later and got it all chopped off for the interview.

After coming back from his interview, I hardly recognized the clean-shaven man who greeted me.

You may be wondering how I felt about the beard. I must admit that it did grow on me after a while. Then after a while more I came to detest it. Not because of the look or the feel but because of the smell. As we didn’t shower every day, the beard would pick up odors (as well as small particles) of food throughout the days leaving a mixture of o-not-so-pleasant smells. The only other complaint about the beard I had was that he had a bad habit of subconsciously pulling his beard while reading. He would end up pulling out numerous hairs and they would constantly be all over the boat!!!