TrekCafe Special - Travel Journal of a Famous Traveller
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009After a lot of effort, we managed to get our hands on a very special Travel Journal of one of the most well-known travellers who ever lived…
We are very delight to present to the TrekCafe Community a small part of the Journals of none other than Christopher Columbus:
Sunday, September 16th, 1492
Hello Dear Readers,
I just thought to keep you up to date into our voyage across the Atlantic. I’m not entirely sure where we were each day (you see I was in the middle of a Guitar Hero Tournament and as you may know, it could get pretty addictive), but I’ve been keeping track of the distances vigilantly. We’ve stopped for supplies about ten days ago in the harbour of Gomera, and someone mentioned that he saw three Portuguese ships sailing not far from us.
He suggested they came to capture us – probably because the King was feeling envious of us. I decided we should sail to Tenerife, where the sun is shining, and Bikinis are mandatory. I figured after all this time with nothing but men on the ship we all needed to see some girls. Lately some of the sailors are giving me the “I would love to row your boat” kind of look, if you know what I mean…
The sea was good those days, but a few days later, the wind picked up and the sea became stormy.
I decided that I did not want to scare the sailors in case the voyage was to get longer than expected, so I… lied to them. Whenever we went sixty leagues, I told them we only did forty-eight. Considering none of them graduated 4th grade, it’s shouldn’t be too hard to get away with.
A few uneventful days passed, but on the 14th, the people on the caravel Nina gave me happy news:
They said they saw a jay and a ring-tail, two kinds of birds that never go out for more than 25 leagues away from shore (Who knew watching “Animal Planet” would actually turn out to be useful…). Happy news indeed! I could feel we are getting closer by the second.
The weather has turned beautiful, like April in Andalusia (if you find yourself scratching your head with uncertainty – it’s good weather dummy). To make things better, there’s a lot of green grass floating on the sea, and as everybody knows, where there’s grass, there’s land (and a few very high individuals, but that’s another story). I don’t think we made it across yet, there’s still a long way to go, but this is so great!
That’s all I have for now, I’m afraid, but don’t worry, I shall endeavour to keep you posted.
Enjoy the sea, for now, and the sun.
I’ll see you later.
Chris.
