Family Across the Stars,
What was I doing before I became the WGI CEO?
I began traveling the world when I was still just a child; my family went back and forth between Virginia and Texas, with trips to other states such as Vermont, Arkansas, and Colorado. Still in my teen years, I started leaving the country; my first overseas trips were to Europe and the Middle East as a United States Marine Infantryman. I was still in my early twenties by the time I had made it to about as many countries. By 35, I had made it to nearly 60 of them.
RTW is the abbreviation I’ve been using for ‘Round The World trip; it is the name of my detailed plan to see all 204 nations of the modern Earth at least once, preferably within half a decade, but probably over several more years. I may end up seeing more back-to-back, as I did with many of those in Europe, and I hope to have enough free time to devote a week or two to the smaller ones, and up to a full year in the biggest; Australia, Brazil, China, India, and Russia. As long as I make it to as many as possible, start making connections there, and examine at least half a dozen more of the ancient megalithic sites, I’ll be good. In my opinion, that will make my ambitious RTW attempt a success.
At the rate I’ve been going, assuming this rate continues, I’ll be going to a dozen countries every several years, with a few years of a break in between each series of trips. If the acceleration of funding and back-to-back trips also continues, however, I’ll end up finishing my RTW much sooner. Your guess is as good as mine, but I think I may be able to pull it all off before I turn 50. (And that’s still a drop in the bucket by most civilized beings’ standards.) That’s a heck of a travel rate, and one I credit my teachers, practice, and training for!
50+ is ~25% of 204. 67 out of the 204 known (unhidden) countries is closer to 1/3. After seeing 25-30% of all Earth countries during basically one decade of total travel time (and at a very manageable pace with plenty of return flights, breaks, and planning during those 10 years), I can probably double that percentage in another 10 years, finishing off the 204 by the third period of 10. That’ll put me at just over 50 years in this life, and I’m happy with those numbers. …I’ll just need to figure out what the hell I’m gonna do with my retirement! I guess I’ll keep perfecting Inisfree.
I figured since I had already made such great progress seeing all the colonized continents, I should go ahead and make a stab at getting to the only un-colonized one. I studied Antarctica for years before teaming up with others who had been there. At that point, since I had already lived and worked on the other major landmasses (and of course for many other reasons), I figured it was time to call Antarctica my new home. I would be traveling out from there now, making those my favorite trips of all.
Next, since I had succeeded in driving, flying, and sailing around the world so many times, I figured I should probably literally go around the world, and the only way to do that is to go into Space. Enter Spaceport America, and my own plans to build Inisfree’s own spaceports. I started contacting the companies of civilian Space pioneers, Elon Musk and Sir Richard Branson. One of my affluent neighbors told me their advertising was real; he’d already bought his own ticket for a near-future sightseeing flight up into low orbit aboard one of their commercial space-liner jets.
You know me; I am always pushing for the best results from the most innovative R+D. That’s how WGI began, after all, all the way back in my high-school days, dreaming up and sketching out invention designs for so many gadgets and other things. Where is my R+D mind now? I’m opening up a dialogue with fellow inventor and pilot, Yves Rossy; he designed, built, and personally test-flew a fixed-wing suit, allowing him to fly like Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story movies. So for me, the best of the best now doesn’t mean commercialized Space travel, or even upcoming 3D-printed hotels on the Moon, but taking off without a jet, and flying not only through the atmosphere in a fixed-wing suit like Yves Rossy’s, but out between the worlds and even across the vast and dynamic gaps that separate them. This is the natural progression of that Ghost power-armor suit I designed; precursor to those of Iron Man, …all the way up to and past the Mjolnir armor of the Spartans in the Halo games. I will be pushing for my own.
Now that I’ve planned for and arranged all that, I figure I should probably not just go around the world, but down into it, as well; I’ll certainly have the experience and gear. Agharta is said to be the name of the hollow core, hundreds of miles beneath the crust and cave networks. There are several ways to access it, according to maps and legends, so I’ll start with the easiest of them; the south polar opening, somewhere between the diameter of a big city and a state, depending on how the ice is built up for various reasons. If it is there, or if I manage to find and navigate down through the other ones, it will be the modern-day equivalent of discovering the Americas –and that the world isn’t flat or whatever else we thought. Imagine the revelations!
WGI team, what this means to you is that your CEO has been learning from every nation and people on Earth, orienting to them all, trying out all their absolute best tech and other breakthroughs, seeing in person which are suitable for doing our kind of business in, and getting a feel for which people in each gives off the best vibes. It means that the people from every country are starting to sense my activity out there, too, and may have already noticed my first visits, as well as my intent. And that means that their very finest are going to start showing up where I am, and where Inisfree is, bringing their own great inventions to our doorstep, looking for us just like I went looking for them.
This is the Age of Reunions; the time when all worthy and compatible peoples rediscover each other and get back together after so many generations and eras apart. Imagine all the wonders we will make together, combining not only the combined knowledge of all of mankind, but also all the wisdom of every other intelligent species, collective, and world! We’ll have to change RTW to RTU after that; ‘Round The Universe trip. I know I’ll see you there –and maybe in a flying spacesuit made by WGI.
To paradise and beyond,
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