See the World in a Small Boat, Says Hilaire Belloc

"There is a simple and and easy way to find what the men who made us found, and to see the world as they saw it, and to take a bath, as it were, in the freshness of beginnings; and that is to go to work as cheaply and as hardly as you can, and only as much away from men as they were away from men, and not to read or to write or to think, but to eat and drink and use the body in many immediate ways which are at the feet of every man. Every man who will walk for some days carelessly, sleeping, rough when he must, or in poor inns, and making for some one place direct because he desires to see it, will know the thing I mean. And there is a better way still of which I shall now speak: I mean, to try the seas in a little boat not more than twenty-five feet long, preferably decked, of shallow draught, such as can enter into all creeks and havens, and so simply rigged that by oneself, or with a friend at most, one can wander all over the world."

I endeavor to do just that. This summer, I will set out by myself direct for Cape Vincent in my twenty-five foot sailboat, because I desire to see it. And I will enter into creeks and havens for shelter and wander all over that world... and if my friends wish to join me, I will be more than happy to oblige.
-Brian