"It was not the trip that was the end goal.
It was trying to making it happen
together with Feynman that was the adventure.
When he died, the adventure ended."
Richard Feynman, famous Nobel prize-winning physicist, was still playing bongo drums with his truck driver friend, when he died. age 70.
The diagnosis of cancer hadn't stopped Feyman from living life to the fullest...right to the end.
One day three years before his death, while playing drums with his friend,
he suddenly stopped playing, turned to his friend and said.
"Let's create an adventure.
"Let's put a map of the world on the wall
and play Blind Man's Buff,
just like we did when we were kids.
With my eyes covered, I'll stick a pin into the map.
And wherever the pin lands, that's where we will travel."
The next day, the adventure began
Richard Feynman had stuck the pin into a most remote spot in Russia.
Even the Russian government was unaware of this remote spot.
So Feynman and his friend spent the next three years
discovering how to get to this remote spot.
They succeeded!
There was a village at this spot.
And people living in this village.
So Feynman and his friend invited the heads of the village to come visit them in America.
Now the Russian government got into the act
and arrangements were made.
The villagers came to visit Feynman and his friend in America!
And now it was the turn of Feynman and his friend to visit their new friends in their village in Russia.
But just before they were to leave
Feynman died.
His bongo playing friend cancelled the return trip to Russia.
Feynman's friend was asked.
"Why didn't you go by yourself?"
The friend replied.
"It was not the trip that was the end goal
It was trying to making it happen together with Feynman that was the adventure.
When he died, the adventure ended."
