By Monica Wilcox
Sometimes you set out to bring attention to a higher cause and before you know it YOU’VE become bigger than the cause. Many might say this has happened to Roz Savage. But what would you expect for a woman who has rowed the world’s biggest oceans.
For the last five months Roz has been rowing herself across the bottom half of the world. Can you even remember what you were doing on April 21st, mid-June, in the heat of July? I don’t know about you but knowing there was a woman rowing, by herself, through pirate infested waters makes my summer look down right. . . sluggish.
Roz is landing TODAY in Grand Baie, Mauritius. As the first woman to cross the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans she’s managed to row herself straight into the history books. It was a six year endeavor, involving 15,000 miles, 500 days at sea, and over 1,000 blog posts. Someone better be at the dock to give that woman a great big hug and a prize.
Behind this crowning achievement is the cause that drove Roz from her cozy, business suit career all those years ago. Serendipity shine upon her: she’s trying to save the very oceans she’s rowed.
Unfortunately, her call for environmental awareness seems to be buried beneath her rowing success in the press, who is all agog with. . . well, with Roz. But if you’ve been following her quest you know how driven she is to trigger a global environmental awakening. So, as she spends the day stumbling around the Grand Baie Yacht Club searching for a pair of sturdy land legs, let us honor her, her accomplishment, and the oceans which allowed her to beat across their ever shifting faces.
Sometimes you set out to bring attention to a higher cause and before you know it YOU’VE become bigger than the cause. Many might say this has happened to Roz Savage. But what would you expect for a woman who has rowed the world’s biggest oceans.
For the last five months Roz has been rowing herself across the bottom half of the world. Can you even remember what you were doing on April 21st, mid-June, in the heat of July? I don’t know about you but knowing there was a woman rowing, by herself, through pirate infested waters makes my summer look down right. . . sluggish.
Roz is landing TODAY in Grand Baie, Mauritius. As the first woman to cross the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans she’s managed to row herself straight into the history books. It was a six year endeavor, involving 15,000 miles, 500 days at sea, and over 1,000 blog posts. Someone better be at the dock to give that woman a great big hug and a prize.
Behind this crowning achievement is the cause that drove Roz from her cozy, business suit career all those years ago. Serendipity shine upon her: she’s trying to save the very oceans she’s rowed.
Unfortunately, her call for environmental awareness seems to be buried beneath her rowing success in the press, who is all agog with. . . well, with Roz. But if you’ve been following her quest you know how driven she is to trigger a global environmental awakening. So, as she spends the day stumbling around the Grand Baie Yacht Club searching for a pair of sturdy land legs, let us honor her, her accomplishment, and the oceans which allowed her to beat across their ever shifting faces.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/how-one-woman-is-striving-to-save-the-oceans-shes-rowed.html#ixzz1aKqAppEh
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