Some travels other than my own.

The BBC is conducting an experiment: they've branded a shipping container with the BBC logo and installed a GPS in it. They're letting it be fed into the normal shipping lanes of the world, just like any other shipping container, and they're tracking where it goes. Wild! I love it!

Here's the story, and here's the map of its journey so far. And here is the Home of the Box. (It has a link to a video clip on how shipping containers have changed the world.)

As I write, the Box is in the middle of the Arabian Sea, after having spent a few days in the UK and some time on a ship that's been going through Gibralter and Suez. Where will it go next, and where after that? What does that say about trading patterns, and, by extension, all patterns of human interaction?

*sigh* I love geography.