re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s true that he thought he was travelling to Asia. I think you didn’t catch the part where he and his crew would have starved to death if North America wasn’t in the way.

Untold numbers of people have died right here on Earth exploring.

There are graves all along US-26 from pioneers going to Oregon, Utah, and California, some very near my home. They knew they were going for a lot less than fabulous wealth (though some might have thought that). And even with the knowns of Native attacks defending their homes, cholera, dysentery, measles, scurvy, &c, they kept on coming.

There is graffiti carved into Scott’s Bluff from those pioneers. The mountain itself is named after a person who didn’t make it, Hiram Scott.

I wonder how many Pacific travelers didn’t make it from Indonesia to the other islands in the Pacific