Rates Of Passage

Two hundred years ago a trip across the Atlantic would have meant over a month on a creaky, leaky sailing vessel with no guarantees. Young arrogant adventurers facing constant peril One hundred and twenty years ago My grandfather’s westward passage on a steamship took five or six days ...Without return passage... He was a young man leaving home For the unknown I am hurtling east across the great Atlantic in a cramped and sometimes shaky silver bullet. This flight takes around six hours. Unsure if the shrinking planet will survive Another century At this rate.