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The Shetland Way: A Journey to the Far North From A to Z: Adventure B

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Hotel @nyware • Pandemic Field Notes From A to Z: Adventure Beyond Plan B During the pandemic, you could not just have a Plan B. You needed the rest of the alphabet. We took Plan S: Shetland, then Fair Isle — Britain’s most remote inhabited island. Plan S Shetland, Fair Isle, and the Art of Flexibility During the Pandemic, you can’t just have a Plan B. How about the rest of the alphabet? We took Plan S: Shetland and Britain’s most remote inhabited island — Fair Isle. Note: not “Shetlands.” The Vikings clearly thought of Shetland as a land. A pandemic-era dispatch from Shetland and Fair Isle. Expedition History Not Just Magellan. Regular People Count Too. It is very important that expedition history not be distilled to just those great men and women like Magellan, Edmund Hillary, Lewis and Clark, and ...

On The Edge Of Britain: Plan S-Shetlands

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Skip to story Plan S · Shetland · Fair Isle The World Stopped. We Went North. During a pandemic, you cannot settle for Plan B. You may need the rest of the alphabet. Sarah and I chose Plan S: Shetland—and Britain’s most remote inhabited island, Fair Isle. See Full Image Open Original Show Text Story Position · Trials Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir From A to Z Plan B Was Never Going to Be Enough Global travel had stopped. Spontaneity had become risk. What once looked like an activity now felt like an accomplishment—and the right response was not certainty. It was flexibility. The Operating Belief “Planning is everything, but the plan means nothing.” The plan is situati...