1719, THE CARIBBEAN

Dear Diary,

Sometimes you just need a girls’ weekend—or in my case, it was six months on the high seas aboard the pirate ship called Revenge. I was a cocaptain with my friends Anne Bonny and Mary Read, who I met in Jamaica a few years ago. We had all just gotten out of bad relationships and were looking for something spontaneous to do.

After a few rounds of drinks, we decided stealing a ship and setting sail around the Caribbean was exactly what we needed—and we were right! I’m glad they suggested it, because I was just going to recommend new haircuts.