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Webb Chiles Cape Horn: Fifty Years Since His Stormy Solo Transit
It was blowing Force 12 off Cape Horn fifty years ago today. I know because I was there.
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Travel is fatal to prejudice
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
Mark Twain
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How Reza Baluchi Plans to Run 21,000 Miles Across the Ocean in His Hydropod
This is how Reza Baluchi intends to travel from Taiwan to Florida: a homemade hydropod powered by his own two feet, running the equivalent of 800 marathons across 21,000 miles of open ocean. This sketch is from the poster illustrating his route(Reza Baluchi photo)
