Word: magellans
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...head for another Golden Grahams refill, then set out to continue my Magellan-like quest...
...gathered support for Harvard’s joining in the Magellan project, which involved construction and operation of twin telescopes in Chile...
...astronaut as a sailor. When I grew up, I did go to sea?every now and then, aboard luxury cruise ships plying the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the Aegean. Seven years ago I went on a South American cruise along the coast of Chile, through the Strait of Magellan and on to Buenos Aires. It was a spectacular voyage in many ways, but I swore it would be my last: the problem was that the aspect of being at sea that interested me the most, the being-at-sea part, was minimized to the point that I almost forgot...
...loves the fresh meat. Enticing the next generation of sultry semanticists to a Saturday soiree with promises of drunken debauchery, Weaver proceeded to embark upon eight bare-assed circumnavigations of the Quad. Said one underwhelmed comper, “Nice route, Magellan.” Shuddered another, “You know, Will really shouldn’t do that?...
...like this. When backpackers first hit the road in the 1970s, they were seen as an antidote to sterile package tours, a return to travel as exploration and adventure. Cheap flights and cheaper costs on the ground meant any Westerner could play discoverer, a modern-day Marco Polo, Magellan or even Zheng He. By living with "the people"?as opposed to living with fellow foreigners in five-star hotels?the backpacker would witness and experience true culture, not some resort-show pastiche. By staying in cheap hostels and eating at small family-run restaurants, he would give his money...