the travelers century club

I came across this website, thought some of you may find it interesting

http://www.travelerscenturyclub.org/

Membership in the Travelers' Century Club (TCC) is limited to those travelers who have visited one hundred or more countries of the world. It was first organized in Los Angeles in 1954 by a group of the world's most widely traveled people. The idea has attracted the interest of the world travelers everywhere and we now have members throughout the world, as well as the United States.
The youngest member of the club is Lani Shea, whose parents, Jeff and Novita, from Novato, CA, report that she reached her 100th country at two years, eight months. She has set a new Guinness World Record under the category of “Youngest person to travel to all seven continents.” This was accomplished in December, 2003, when she was two years, 307 days.

It made me count the number of countries I have been to: 22, a small achievement in comparison but a valiant and ongoing effort nonetheless

green guns

travelling by bus in israel; 2 things are sure, you will see alot of olive green uniform and you will have many guns pointed at you

on tourist traps...

conclusion: multimedia shows for tourists are lame everywhere, even in a cave dug under the mediteranean at the border between israel and lebanon...

jerusalem

The catch 22 of travel

" then came july 15, a wonderful sunny day, and my sextant sights revealed we had passed the halfway mark(37W)
That evening I celebrated...but there was a tingle of sadness in this fact too, I didn't think I'd want it to go on forever, yet whether i did or not, it's end, no matter how happy or how longed for, would be accompanied by sharp twinges of pain, an undercurrent of profound regret. For then the voyage and all it meant to me in happiness would have moved from anticipation through realization into the past, where events, once lodged, existed only in the limbo of memory and could not (no matter how hard we tried) be relived."

-Robert Manry (June 2, 1918 – February 21, 1971) was a copy editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer who in 1965 sailed from Falmouth, Massachusetts to Falmouth, Cornwall, England in a tiny 13.5 foot (4 m) sailboat  named Tinkerbelle. Beginning on June 1, 1965 and ending on August 17, the voyage lasted 78 days.
At the time, the Tinkerbelle was the smallest boat to make a non-stop trip across the Atlantic Ocean. Manry later wrote about the voyage and its preparation in his book Tinkerbelle.( I highly recommend that you read it)
To know more about Robert and Tinkerbell: www.robertmanryproject.com

 I discovered Robert's story when I chanced upon Tinkerbell at the western reserve museum in Cleveland last year.
4 metres may sound like alot of room but when you take into account all the modifications he made to the boat for it to float steadfastly and all the supplies he had to take with him for 78 days on the north atlantic by himself, that left him enough space to crawl into a ball.
He fell out of the boat on several occasions and if I am not mistaken there were 6 days of the trip that he spent hallucinating and later had no recollection of.
Tinkerbell's virgin voyage on "open waters" was actually here in Canada as Robert sailed her up to Thunder bay from lake Eerie in the summer of 1964 with his son, 200 miles(321km) in one week.
I will be studying Robert's logbook more closely to discover what really motivated this amazing man to undertake such a daring endeavor with what appears to be such a frolicsome(laidback) mindset?

I will be writing about other amazing ppl and their travelling feats, feel free to make suggestions as to whom

post one hop two

as the title of this blog explains, I will be posting pictures of my foot in different places around the world that I will travel to.
today's picture is from the port in Akko, Israel.

Acre (Hebrew: עַכּוֹ‎, Akko; Arabic: عكّا‎, ʻAkkā), is a city in the Western Galilee region of northern Israel and is situated on a low promontory at the northern extremity of Haifa Bay.
Acre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the country and historically, was regarded as a strategic coastal link to the Levant. Acre is the holiest city of the Bahá'í Faith. As of 2007, the city had a predominantly Jewish population of 46,000.
-Notable inhabitants?  Jazzar Pasha; who earned the nickname "the Butcher" for his cruelty and extortion of his subjects. He is best known for defending Acre against Napoleon Bonaparte during the siege of Acre in 1799

-Twin city?
    Deerfield beach USA, oh yes

The same day I visited Akko I went up north to a little village on the lebanesse border called Rosh Hanikra, I then found out that this was were Sasha Baron Cohen (Borat) grew up... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_HaNikra,_Israel

why do we travel?

Have you ever felt that there was a lack of purpose in your life, that try as you might to find that one true passion it evades you.
Have you travelled in order to get away from the monotony of life, growing up, becoming part of society and all the rest?
Did you not feel as fulfilled by some of these trips as you thought you would be?
That is why I will not only be posting travel stories and pictures but also quotes on travel from different sources and misc reflections I encounter here and there to the end of finding out why we travel and how we can travel better.

so basically this blog is about the connection between travel, life and footwear.


enjoy