26 miles across the sea
Santa Catalina is waiting for me.
Santa Catalina, the island of romance.

But, um, 26 miles *from where*?

Well, after eventually guessing the correct spelling (Is that "san" or 
"santa"? "cataline" or "catalina" or "catarina" or...? Is that with a C 
or a K?) I eventually discovered [as presumably everybody except me 
already knows] that it's a small island off the coast of California. 
Wikipedia claims that it's actually 22 miles off the coast, presumably 
measured from the nearest point, so the "40 kil-o-meters in a leaky old 
boat" must be from somewhere further along the coast. (Or perhaps 
inland, although "26 miles *across the sea*" implies that the ocean part 
specifically is 26 miles.)

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