Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Elvises (or should I say 'Elvi'?) boarded the plane--bound, it would turn out, for Graceland, in honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the King's birth--it became clear that we passengers were unprepared for our multicultural journey...
...remaining trains halfway to my destination. There I met a young man who for the next five hours led me to Kobe, clearing the road of broken glass and steering me away from danger. He was constantly concerned about me, disregarding his own safety during our often perilous journey on foot. I was dazed and shocked by the destruction around me. My guide led me through the ravaged area right to the front door of where I needed to go, whereupon he thanked me for the honor of escorting me and left. To my mind this man, Masaru Katagawa, epitomizes...
...Caribbean island of Barbados after swimming across the Atlantic from the Cape Verde Islands. Delage swam for 10 hours a day, then crawled aboard an accompanying raft to rest. Afflicted by seasickness and often spurred on by the presence of hungry sharks, he completed his 2,400-mile journey in less than two months...
Oceangoer After a journey fraught with fatigue, loneliness and worry about sharks, GUY DELAGE, 42, splashed ashore on Barbados--the first man to swim the Atlantic. Towing a supply raft into which he slithered each night after swimming six to eight hours, he had left the Cape Verde Islands--some 3,800 km away--55 days earlier. Critics might cavil about his use of flippers and a kickboard, but to his waiting wife and two children, he was a much hugged hero...
...young man who for the next five hours led me to Kobe, clearing the road of broken glass, steering me away from danger and running ahead and searching for safer routes. He was constantly concerned about me, disregarding his own safety and comfort during our often perilous journey on foot. I was dazed and shocked by the destruction around me. My guide led me through the ravaged area to where I needed to go, whereupon he thanked me for the honor of escorting me and left. To my mind this man, Masaru Katagawa, epitomizes the noble spirit of Japan. Jeanette...