"Joe" wrote
| If you were to sail around the world
| would you go east or west? Why?



I can answer that one for ya. In the northern hemisphere there's too many continents in the way
to sail around the world. If you try to sail north of them you run into solid ice. You can sail around
the world in the southern hemisphere because there's enough room. You sail between Antarctica and
the Horn and Good Hope and Luellen. Down there the prevailing winds blow from west to east. So the
direction to sail easiest is west to east. That answers the *why*. My namesake is an expert at this!


Cheers,
Ellen