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by monkeynotes 1608 days ago
I am honestly confused by this comment. I am struggling to understand how anyone could miss the point of sailing around the world for no other reason than the experience. The journey is the destination is an idiom for a reason.
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Some people don't have the travel bug. My dad sees the world as just going to work and making money and that's all he cares about.
In the words of the late Dr. Johnson, "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned".