Some people live lives of great adventure. Other people have great adventures in otherwise bland lives. Adventure happens to some. Others look for it. To quote Thoreau, "most men live lives of quiet desperation." ... Your faithful correspondent has always been interested in people who look for adventure, whether great or small: Joshua Slocum and his around the world voyage in a small sailboat, Miles Smeeton and his recreation of Bligh's voyage from the Bounty, Sir Edmund Hillary. Those men had great adventures. Other men have had small adventures. Roger Bannister breaking the four minute mile was a small adventure, as is/was walking or bicycling across the United States or paddle boarding to Santa Catalina Island. Each man's adventure and sense of adventure is unique to himself. For some just getting to work unscathed is an adventure.
A man has decided to skateboard the 6000 kilometers (that's about 4,000 miles in real distance) across Australia: Brit to skate across Australia NEWS.com.au . Is it nutty? Probably. But the fellow is not only having an adventure, but is trying to raise money for charity while doing it.
If you're interested, check out his website:BoardFree: Rolling Around Australia 2006.
And to see the skateboard he's using look here: rolls rolls carbon longboard .
And finally, to keep track of his progress, look here: Elsa and I: the story of a man, a longboard and an awful lot of road...
Godspeed and good luck, Dave.
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