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I was asked by Bombay Sapphire (the makers of fine Gin) to write an article for a blog they set up on the Spirit of Exploration. Here is a sample:
In the early years of the 21st century we, the human race, find ourselves on a planet where almost everything which can be explored has. We have been to the top of Mount Everest and the bottom of the sea. We have been to the moon, conquered the poles, and have seen up-close photos of every planet in our Solar System. Most of the ‘firsts’ have been exhausted and modern explorers have resorted to attaching more more adjectives to their accomplishments to make them noteworthy: oldest to climb Everest, first solo human powered journey around the Earth, first pole-to-pole circumnavigation of the Earth, etc.
It would seem that exploration as we have come to think of it is all but dead.
If you want to take a few seconds, you can read the full article and vote for it over at their website. Just click on the stars near the title. No registration or anything else is required.
By the way, several years ago I created my own drink that actually uses gin. It is called the Sour Caesar. It is made of Diet Coke, gin (Bombay Sapphire of course :) and lemon juice. My goal is to have this drink be a part of the International Bartenders Association official cocktail list. If someone would like to create a Wikipedia page for the Sour Caesar, it would be much appreciated. Order this drink the next time you go out and tell the bartender what it is when they say they don’t know what it is. It will make you look very cultured and urbane.
Related posts:
Flaming Gorekras:
2 shots gin
light on fire
drink, then die
blame paramedics for not healing you fast enough
:)
I yearn to have the record of being the “First to blog from the Moon”.