Freya Stark
"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure."
Through a combination of good luck, industry, and determination, in the past four years I have sailed from Seattle to Sydney, with appropriate stops in-between, from Tampa to Barcelona, by ferry to Morocco, on a long flight to Singapore and then, by boat, through the Straits of Malacca and the Andaman Sea, across the Bay of Bengal, and into the Arabian …