The more you know, the less you need.
Yvon Chouinard
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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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Webb Chiles: Six-Time Solo Circumnavigator – Travel Grit Podcast
Legendary solo sailor Webb Chiles has circled the globe six times over five decades of ocean voyaging, most recently with his Moore 24 sailboat Gannet.
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Read Webb’s incredible account of rounding Cape Horn here.
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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) -
Reza Baluchi: Running Oceans in a Hydropod | Travel Grit Podcast
Reza Baluchi has been stopped by the Coast Guard four times trying to run across the ocean in a hydropod—now he’s launching from Taiwan where they can’t reach him.
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Read about Reza’s upcoming hydropod journey. Listen on Spotify.
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Adrift in the Doldrums
Step aboard Sea Board for a taste of life in the Atlantic Doldrums Sailing voyages conjure images of wind stretched sails and bow wakes. But what happens when the wind stops blowing? Step aboard Sea Bird for a taste of life in the Atlantic Doldrums
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Hugo Vihlen: Crossing the Atlantic in 5′ 4″ Sailboat -Travel Grit Transcript
At 62, Hugo Vihlen sailed across the Atlantic in Father’s Day—a boat just 5 feet 4 inches long. He hand-steered through a hurricane, ate quarter rations, and lost a kidney somewhere between Newfoundland and England. His record still stands 30+ years later.
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