Archive for February, 2008

Web Adventures - Curious Expeditions.Org »

By David Stilwill on Feb 14, 2008 in Global Travel, Libraries, Web Sites | 0 Comments

Stumbling about the long branching hallways of the internet I came across a site filled with wondrous images, tales of foreign lands, libraries stacked to the ceilings with books, cabinets filled with clocks, bones, mysterious paraphenalia and much more.
CuriousExpeditions.org is my kind of place. Their tagline states ‘Travelling and Exhuming the Extraordinary Past‘. Content, [...]

Oceans, Solitude, Madness & A Race Around The World »

By David Stilwill on Feb 12, 2008 in Featured, Global Travel, Ocean Adventure | 2 Comments

Break, Break, Break,
On thy cold grey stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

October 31, 1968
On the final day of a five month starting window, two sailboats, the last of nine, left the shores of England in competition of a single-handed, non-stop race to circle [...]