I love the doctor!!! The "good doctor," a big man, jolly and energetic, charging up the steep hillside, the epitome of America's love affair with Walt Whitman.
Great explorers!! - one of my favorite subjects - thank you, @zeldacroft.
No cameras - just a sketchbook and art supplies to schlepp around in new, uncharted territory, and who has time to draw when, as the doctor points out, ADVENTURE awaits? But thank God the great ones did draw - on the Lewis and Clark expedition, and Karl Bodmer's Illustrations to Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied's expeditions (Brazil, North America).

Your story calls to mind a Moody Blues song about legendary explorers, namely, the one who'd been missing for years; I love the classic, coolly British greeting from the man who found him - Not "OMG, it's you," but the quintessential "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

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