A small boat keeps the world big and I have always tried to keep the world as big as it possibly can be.
That’s my aim, not a big boat with which you circle the world as quickly as you can.
Thies Matzen / Wanderer III
I don’t know who named them swells. There’s nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.
Hugo Vihlen
Listen to Sven’s interview on the Travel Grit podcast
The Doldrums is a pain for people who are in a hurry. But I am not in a hurry. So everything is so fine.
Sven Yrvind
Listen to Sven’s interview on the Travel Grit podcast
Travel Grit: What was the first day of your Long Ride across Australia like?
Gin Szagola: It felt like I was going to my own funeral, if I’m going to be completely honest. I set off with the realization that this could be it, you know, everything could go tits up. It could be a complete dumpster fire. My horse could kill me. He could kill himself. It could just be a complete disaster.
– Gin Szagola describing the first day of her ride across Australia. Listen to her interview here.
Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final anchorage.
– Arthur Ransome, from Racundra’s First Cruise, 1923
In every generation there are a few souls, call them lucky or cursed, who are simply born not belonging, who come into the world semi-detached,
(more…)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
Innocents Abroad – 1869