Swimming in the Thames

And so The Journey begins...129 miles

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March 26th 2009
And so, indeed, the journey has begun. The Journey, in fact, for it seems that this trip is one that I have dreamt of and schemed over for many years. Not in its details or particulars, but in its essence, its soul, its purpose. What that is, why i'm doing this, is a difficult thing to explain. It is difficult, even, to explain to myself, but i'll give it a shot. The thing, I find, about life, ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more