I had forgotten about the Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl, whose book about the first expedition during the 1950s, was surely read by every American schoolchild during the 1960s.
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Good morning from the snow-covered prairies of Nebraska, the Norway of America. Usually, generally, most of the time, I like snow, but now, looking out upon the bluish-pink rising of the winter sun over these fruited plains, I losing my patience with winter.
And Heyerdahl was later proven to be completely wrong about his theory of Polynesian settlement.
Sure was. I remember the vivid pictures and the bombardment of the flying fish. Heyedahl proved his point and he did so courageously...but what the heck are these guys trying to prove? Same sort of thing with Will Steger and his polar expedition a few years back. In my neck of the woods (MN) he was seranaded in the press like a super-human god. Yeah, he spent a few cold weeks up there, but so what! The REAL heroes, writ large, are the men that took real chances with primitive equipment, no communications and NO chance of rescue as they went into the truly unknown. These guys are just staving off adulthood.
The real problem, of course, deals with loading and the weight associated with all the booze that the Norwegians will have to load on the raft.
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