What to think about on a lazy afternoon during this long sail? Today, it felt as if the Quijote was back in time and we were travelling up the BC coast a few hundred years ago. There was nothing in my view to indicate we were in he modern age - except of course for our boat itself - which surely would have been as foreign as an alien spaceship to anyone we encountered back then. What if I could take but a single object back in time from the Quijote, say to the middle ages…. what would the preferred object be?
A radio would do one no good - there was no electricity or anyone to receive the transmission. A sharp folding knife would impress and certainly be handy but was not that huge of a leap in technology. A manual clock might do it, but every timepiece here is battery powered. A signal flare would dazzle but it would be for one event only.
I think a simple portable lighter might do the trick. It is useful, portable and even when empty would be a dazzling object. If you have another idea of what to take back in time from our sailing ship, feel free to suggest it in the comment section!
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