Travel without flying

Wading through corona turmoil While being in Sri Lanka the entire crew, after a long debate where to sail next, decided that the first coming stop will be in Oman but guess what, after I applied and paid for my visa Oman officials announced that it closed the borders to prevent spreading of the coronavirus. After this completely unprepared action that limited considerably our next choice we decided to sail to Djibouti and as soon as we were preparing for departure the news broke with negative waves from Djibouti which alerted us of locking airports and closed the borders. Eventually we left Sri Lanka on a positive note with suspicion that coronavirus will ease the grip of the world and the borders will be open by the time we will arrive in Djibouti, after 3-4 weeks of sailing.       [1]      After roughly 24 hours of sailing we found ourselves in a non wind spot, with a flat surface comparable to a mirror that reflected sun in all the directio...

[1] Worldwide virus outbreak drill One could feel a prodigious scale game going on, from alarming news in distant places that never would reach or affect one directly to quickly stiffened with enforced governmental emergency surge in front of your eyes to unfold in a mature poisoned drama. Tension with periodic lockdowns could be felt as unrealistic war-like conditions which gave a feeling of playing a role in a life scene from an abysmal apocalyptic, lab escaped virus outbreak movie. It seems however that governments around the planet had a global real-life drill simulation, it appears that they have just tested their technical aptitudes and preparedness methods for a future global outbreak and to justify their action they marched under the cover of coronavirus outbreak because indeed it is the best opportunity to act without legislating laws and even with less interrogation for indictment from the public community.           [2] If the WHO's vi...