not2sharp
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I have participated on this site for nearly 14 years, so perhaps it is time to do something that hasn’t been done before, something fun, challenging and interesting for our entire knife community. Indeed I am banking on our network of collectors from around the globe to help us to pull this together.
In the best spirit of Jules Verne, I propose to challenge all of us to find a way to circumnavigate the globe by stopping at no more than 80 sequential locations, each of which must be associated with a specific bit of knife lore. This means that our path must cross the Prime Meridian and the Equator at least once and must cover all 360 degrees of globe before returning to our original staring point. To make this more interesting, we are going to limit the maximum distance between any of these points as follows:
1) Name a knife associated with the country in which the point is located and earn a 500-mile travel allowance. (For the sake of simplicity
all travel distances between points will be measured in straight lines).
2) Name a knife manufactured/made within the city where the point is located and you get an additional 500-mile travel allowance.
3) Post a photo of an example of this knife and earn an additional 200-mile allowance.
This means that the maximum allowable distance between any two points will range between 500 and 1,200 miles depending on how well we do, and the entire earned allowance must be taken in a single hop. So if you have earned the privilege to locate a point within a distance of 1,200 miles and elect one that is closer, you lose the extra travel allowance; which means that we will be crossing the near the Bering Strait and later on along the North Atlantic. So even though our circumference is only about 24,000 miles, we will not be able to travel a straight line along either the Equator or Prime Meridian.
Starting location: Our pack of adventurers will start and end their journey in Fulton, New York. (see our starting point in the post below)
n2s
Progress to date:
1- Fulton, New York to Hants Harbour, Newfoundland
2- Hants Harbour, Newfoundland to Nuuk, Greenland
3- Nuuk, Greenland to Mosfellsbær, Iceland
4- Mosfellsbær, Iceland to Lock Ness, Scottland
5- Lock Ness, Scottland to St Etienne France
6- St Etienne France to Zagreb
7- Zagreb to Sofia Bulgaria
8- Sofia Bulgaria to Jerusalem Israel
9- Jerusalem to Persepolis (ancient capitol of Persia)
10- Persepolis to Kabul
11- Kabul Afghanistan to Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India
12- Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India to Kathmandu,Nepal
13- Kathmandu, Nepal to Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma)
In the best spirit of Jules Verne, I propose to challenge all of us to find a way to circumnavigate the globe by stopping at no more than 80 sequential locations, each of which must be associated with a specific bit of knife lore. This means that our path must cross the Prime Meridian and the Equator at least once and must cover all 360 degrees of globe before returning to our original staring point. To make this more interesting, we are going to limit the maximum distance between any of these points as follows:
1) Name a knife associated with the country in which the point is located and earn a 500-mile travel allowance. (For the sake of simplicity
all travel distances between points will be measured in straight lines).
2) Name a knife manufactured/made within the city where the point is located and you get an additional 500-mile travel allowance.
3) Post a photo of an example of this knife and earn an additional 200-mile allowance.
This means that the maximum allowable distance between any two points will range between 500 and 1,200 miles depending on how well we do, and the entire earned allowance must be taken in a single hop. So if you have earned the privilege to locate a point within a distance of 1,200 miles and elect one that is closer, you lose the extra travel allowance; which means that we will be crossing the near the Bering Strait and later on along the North Atlantic. So even though our circumference is only about 24,000 miles, we will not be able to travel a straight line along either the Equator or Prime Meridian.
Starting location: Our pack of adventurers will start and end their journey in Fulton, New York. (see our starting point in the post below)
n2s
Progress to date:
1- Fulton, New York to Hants Harbour, Newfoundland
2- Hants Harbour, Newfoundland to Nuuk, Greenland
3- Nuuk, Greenland to Mosfellsbær, Iceland
4- Mosfellsbær, Iceland to Lock Ness, Scottland
5- Lock Ness, Scottland to St Etienne France
6- St Etienne France to Zagreb
7- Zagreb to Sofia Bulgaria
8- Sofia Bulgaria to Jerusalem Israel
9- Jerusalem to Persepolis (ancient capitol of Persia)
10- Persepolis to Kabul
11- Kabul Afghanistan to Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India
12- Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India to Kathmandu,Nepal
13- Kathmandu, Nepal to Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma)
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