We got our summit stones from DSD yesterday, and we are ready now for heading over to Norway. I don’t know so much about DSD, but I know enough to say that discovery of DSD’s website was an uplifting experience. We are taking several ziplock bags containing painted stones from different summits and 60-page booklet entitled “An Adventure Muse” with us. The booklet contains quotes on the nature of adventures, journeys, life, wilderness, karma, love. We will place DSD’s summit stones on different places and summits in Europe, and if you are in the right place at the right time, you will find one.

PS: Thank you DSD, and so that you know: I’ll keep the one on the right side.  I hope you don’t mind.

We did it finally. We drove to the Canadian Rockies all the way from Vancouver, and stayed there for four days. Everywhere we went, there were giant mountains, beautiful glaciers and turqoise lakes. On our second day we climbed Paget Peak and admired scenery of the Yoho Valley, while on our third day we climbed Observation Peak. The views up there and everywere else we went were just spectacular. We would love to go back to the Canadian Rockies as soon as possible, but first in a couple of weeks we’ll visit Hurrungane and stay one week in “the home of the giants”.

Here are some pictures from out trip to the Canadian Rockies:

I found an old article some days ago regarding the issue if China discovered America in year 1421. One of the retired British Royal Navy submarine commanding officer was saying that none of the great European explorers actually discovered anything new because the whole world was charted before they set sail, so somebody before them had done it. We’ll still need to wait to hear about these ’somebodies’ while history rewrites. Before that time and despite what they will say in the future, I found this video worth seeing:

PS: You’ll find all episodes on youtube.

Some weeks ago I saw that Kraig on The Adventure Blog posted a link to a really great website with many maps of history’s greatest journeys. Great to have in case Gorida one day decide to do something similar to what Ibn Battuta or James Cook did. Different stories of explorers and travelers have always been the big inspiration in my life, so I was really happy to see specially the map of the greatest explorer ever, namely Marco Polo.  I was even happier when Goran told me about Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell and their wild idea, namely to retrace Marco Polo’s entire 25.000 miles land-and-sea route from Venice to China and back. You can watch the result on their website.

PS: Mike Yamashitas presentation of the similar issue is well worth watching.