bigscoop
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- Jun 4, 2010
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- Older blue Excal with full mods, Equinox 800.
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- All Treasure Hunting
Allow me to take you back to a time of conquest and discovery, to a time when skyscrapers didn’t line our beaches and a good ship was made of wood and a few square sails. Imagine the coast of Florida completely void of concrete and glass, just miles and miles of sand dunes, and tall palm trees swaying in the ocean breeze. You’re several yards from shore and yet you can still hear the waves rolling onto the beach while others continue to slap against your ship’s hull. Above you the square sails are flapping in the breeze as your eyes continue to watch yet another new land slowly pass by. Each sight is new and exciting, but still unexplained. Everywhere you look there is adventure and beauty, curiosity and stimulation. A million thoughts have passed through your mind, yet another million still await their turn. There are no phones, no satellites, no planes leaving streaks across the clear blue sky. You are alone on the unexplored seas, in search of whatever might be found among the endless expanses of the unknown.
In those above moments, those very moments when their eyes were consuming every wonder before them, I have often wondered what these men were thinking, what thought, or perhaps emotion, was lingering in their head? Was it a sense of adventure? Perhaps thoughts of fortune and fame? While I was sure that both of these thoughts had played upon their temptations and aspirations, it just wasn’t enough to drive them to risking so much, there simply had to be more. And then one day, as I was strolling along a section of secluded beach it suddenly dawned on me what it was that had driven them to the edges of an unknown world. And in a single word I can describe it with ease. That word is freedom, a complete and unrestricted freedom that men will never know again. The whole word was theirs the minute they set sail.
PS: Not a political post in any way. Just saying......"Now this would be freedom!"
In those above moments, those very moments when their eyes were consuming every wonder before them, I have often wondered what these men were thinking, what thought, or perhaps emotion, was lingering in their head? Was it a sense of adventure? Perhaps thoughts of fortune and fame? While I was sure that both of these thoughts had played upon their temptations and aspirations, it just wasn’t enough to drive them to risking so much, there simply had to be more. And then one day, as I was strolling along a section of secluded beach it suddenly dawned on me what it was that had driven them to the edges of an unknown world. And in a single word I can describe it with ease. That word is freedom, a complete and unrestricted freedom that men will never know again. The whole word was theirs the minute they set sail.
PS: Not a political post in any way. Just saying......"Now this would be freedom!"
