[snopercod]

A man of a bygone era where theories were to be proven, and life was to be lived first hand, not vicariously sitting in a darkened room watching TV.

He will be remembered along with Marco Polo, Columbus, DeSoto, Lindbergh, Lewis & Clark, Dick and Jeanna Yeager and all the others.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. The great creators, the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors stood alone against the men of their time.

--Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

May he have a safe voyage and fair winds.

[" And I mean It "]

" After Heyerdahl's 1947 voyage, conventional anthropologists dismissed the college dropout's theories, saying they were only the work of a gifted amateur "

Thanks for the quote Snopercod. I was thinking the same thing. Man of the mind.

Ever read any of the books by Gene Landrum? Psychology/analysis of some the other free-thinkers.