Tim Kent is about to round Cape Horn, and exit the Southern Ocean while aboard his 50ft. sailboat Everest Horizontal. It was during the Around Alone Race several tears ago. A single handed race around the Globe. The planet is the race course and you only need to finish to be considered a winer. Tim is an ordinary man doing an extraordinary thing. What have you done today?

Travel to Lisbon, Portugal, the City of Discoveries, home to Vasco da Gama and Henry the navigator, who both helped to successfully navigate a sea route to India. The resulting wealth from the spice trade made Portugal a great mercantile center of Europe. In 1986 Portugal joined the EC and foreign investment and development began to change how businesse was done and its economy began to recover. Today Lisbon is a cosmopolitan city where the influence of its colonies in Africa and Brazil give it a very interesting vibe. Lisbon is happening place, many of its younger generation speak English and it is an affordable and exciting destination

The Acropolis in Athens is breathtaking, the Parthenon one of the most recognizable landmarks in the world. The ruins remind us of a great civilization that nursed the Western World, thru art, politics and culture.