Comment on “Worldbuilding 5g: Docks, Quays & Storehouses”

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Thank you for writing these. The whole series has of course been enjoyable and useful, more than I can put into words at this moment, but I am especially grateful that we have you around To show us the way (or your way, at least) on these types of facilities. There is only so much of life that I have experienced, and none of it has involved docks or quays - or boating, or sea shipping*. More than anything else, the facilities posts are valuable for giving me launching points to do my own reading, whether on the Internet or in the university library**, about the things that you bring to my attention from your larger pool of knowledge.

On a random walk through the stacks this morning after TAing my 8 AM class, I found “Alone Through the Forbidden Land” - a 1930s account by an Austrian traveler who decided to venture, with false papers, into the country of Turkmenistan, which at that time allowed no foreigners to enter under pain of imprisonment or death (if I recall correctly.) Within three pages I could tell that it was basically real life DND! I had to check it out even though I was already grabbing three other books.

* though, now that I live in a beach town with a lot of marine activity, I am hoping to change this. Unfortunately my hand injury makes a lot of sports inaccessible. But it’s better this year than it was last year, so I’m hopeful I will be able to take up kayaking or something similar soon.

** graduate students can check out up to 25 books at a time with virtually no time limit! :-)