Hi Friends!
We hope this newsletter finds you well and traveling as much as possible.
Today, we have a couple of places to check out if you feel adventurous. Of course, it's always about life, money, and other circumstances that may pop up.
Enjoy today's adventures and use your imagination as we did.
Be Well! Stay Safe!
Mark & Patti
Let’s start at Point Nemo
The Most Remote Place on Earth Has Space Junk and a Sea Monster
Q: WHAT DO SCI-FI-PIONEER JULES Verne, horror-writer H.P. Lovecraft, and the Russian space programme have in common?
A: Their overlapping interest in an inhospitable corner of the South Pacific, only recently identified as the remotest part of the world’s oceans—Point Nemo.
Pinpointing the “middle of the ocean” sounds like something explorers and cartographers should have worked out centuries ago. Turns out it couldn’t be done before modern computing and GPS technology. In 1992, Croatian-Canadian survey engineer Hrvoje Lukatela wrote a geospatial programme called Hipparchus, and “found Nemo.”
How About a Visit To Batman’s Bar and Bats?
Bat Bar in Lost Canyon Cave
IN THE MISSOURI OZARKS, THE Bat Bar gives new meaning to the term “watering hole.” It’s next to a waterfall within a mountaintop cave. The good thing is it’s never all that crowded, unless you count the bats.
Visitors park at the Top of the Rock welcome center and take two- or four-person golf carts through a 2.5-mile woodland path over streams and bridges, stopping at both a butterfly garden and a scenic overlook called Eagle Pass. Shortly into the trip, the trail dips into the Lost Canyon Cave, wherein lies the one-of-a-kind bar.