The Obligatory Trans-Atlantic Container Ship Experience
…”we live in a universe whose age we can’t quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don’t altogether know, filled with matter we can’t identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand.” A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson (Broadway Books, 2003) You live in a house. [...]
Hitchhiking Japan – Life on the High Seas
Day Two: It’s like watching the ocean at night. Darkness pervades, but the sense of something massive and much greater than you happening just beyond the immense sands is overwhelming. Staring out into it your eyes adjust to the black and you begin to see the dancing forms of millions of years. It is then [...]