How I would like to die
Well first about amazing humans who do amazing things. Ed Stafford become the first man to walk the length of the Amazon river. That is a 4000 mile trek!
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One of my dreams is to float on the Amazon. I have been saying this for a long time. I want to feel the boredom of that journey. Feel some danger and the annoyance. I envy people like Stafford who actually get to do these things.
This is how I would like to die. Death comes to all… as far as I know. So one cool way to die would be to be eaten by piranha or stunt by electric eel, right in the middle of the Amazon.
Reading Paths of Glory by Jeffery Archer. Fictional account of George Mallory’s ill-fated attempt to be the first on Mount Everest.
So here are few of the dreams I have been nursing for a long time, not necessarily in the order of importance or
1) reach at least the base camp of Mount Everest with my kids.
2) float down the Amazon
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3) walk/bus/train along the “foot steps of Alexander the Great”. Few years ago I saw this wonderful documentary by Michael Wood. Ever since then I have been trying to recruit my middle aged friends to do this. The journey would start in Macedonia. Participate in any civil war that may be going on in that part of the world. If we survive continue.
Off to Lebanon/Syria, Israel. Problem is will any Arab country let you pass through after you have gone to Israel. Well let’s see. Off to Egypt and Libya. Turn around and via Israel off to Iraq, Iran, some parts of Afghanistan and then Pakistan. Get malaria, take a boat and die on the way. Well we can skip that last bit.
