Australia is going gaga at the moment (and rightly so) for a teen girl named Jessica Watson. She is not a singer, or soap star, but has just become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.
The venture may have ended disastrously, and it may be a bona fide miracle that it didn´t, but I for one admire her for pursuing it more than for completing it.
The last five days have been spent by me bobbing down a series of rivers in the Amazon basin on some crudely lashed together tire tubes, and while it too had its dangers it seems piddling compared to her seven month effort.
Occasionally I am accused of bravery, but always want to point out that for some people it is harder not to look around the next corner, over the next mountain, or beyond the next wave. Good for you Jessica!
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