Bradford Rogers

“There is always a certain risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there’s more risk.” —Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House”
― John Kretschmer, Sailing to the Edge of Time: The Promise, the Challenges, and the Freedom of Ocean Voyaging

“And so I tell myself again: I am here because in the landscape of each and every human imagination lies one special place. Our inner compass keeps pointing us toward this spot, which is magnetic, mysterious, exotic, and alluring but, alas, always fringed by a frontier of our fears. Still, it is to this specific place that we are compelled to travel in order to know ourselves and, in so doing, call our lives complete.”
― Alvah Simon, North To The Night

“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. —HONORÉ DE BALZAC, novelist”
― Margot Leitman, Long Story Short: The Only Storytelling Guide You'll Ever Need

“To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen, who play with their boats at sea—”cruising,” it is called.”
― Sterling Hayden, Wanderer