Fairfax was among the last avatars of a centuries-old figure: the lone-wolf explorer (…) His was a solitary, contemplative art that has been all but lost amid the contrived derring-do of adventure-based reality television.
— John Fairfax obituary, via NYT
I’m still at sea.
This post is from my first voyage, sailing alone around the world from 2009 to 2015. These days I live aboard El Dorado in France and send dispatches from the boat.
Get the dispatches on Substack →
Or get real mail from the boat: the Foreign Correspondence Club.