After graduation, new Cornell alumni usually scatter to the four winds. But most don’t scatter quite as far as Keith Dickey ’07 and John Depenbrock ’07. And most don’t actually use the four winds to do their scattering.
Dickey and Depenbrock are sailing around the world on a 31-foot boat for three-and-a-half years.
They’ve just left the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia. On Tahutua, they watched locals dive for red snapper and catch the fish with their bare hands. "The next thing I know we’re drinking red wine, eating raw fish prepared in lime juice- which was the most amazing raw fish I have ever eaten," Depenbrock writes in their blog . "They even showed us how to eat the fish eyes, which were surprisingly tasty."
Now they’re off to Tahiti and Bora Bora. Only time will tell if they’ll make it back to New York in 2010. If they do, they’ll have to come up with a new name for their boat—LongShot.