Marco+Polo-LE

My mother had often told me about my father and how amazing he was. She said that he could have traveld the whole world if he wanted to. Unlucky for me, he left a few months before I was born. For 14 years I have never knew how having a father would be like. But soon I would know what it would be like. He had promised my mother he would be back before I turned 15. I diddnt know where he was, but he sure was on an adventure. He was probably trading with markets in far off lands, after all he was a merchant. He should be here any second now.

Marco Polo

My father has finnally come back. he has brought riches from across seas and many stories to tell me. I listened through all of them. He fit my mom's description exactly, he is the most amazing adventerer ever and then he says something that made me very excited, "When you are 17 I will take you on a journey with me." In 1571 my father kept his promise and decided to take me on a journey to Cathay to trade our goods for silks and rare Asian goods. He said that my uncle, Maffeo would come along too. He told me that this would be about a 24 year journey and I would not be back until 41. He asked me If I wanted to go along and I agreed.

We set off in my dad's biggest boat carrying all of our needs for survival. we went east from Venice and headed twoard Syria from the Meditteranian sea. It seemed like that took longer than excpected because we had to go to the other side of the sea. Next, we came around Iraq and traveld on camels to Iran. this was our second pit stop and it seemed as if we were making good time. next, we went to Amadadbag, India by sea. The whole time we were bumping into land beacuse we did not want travel too far out into sea. the fourth travel we took was probably the longest; we went right below india and then turned a little south heading for Indonesia. We were right below malaysia when we turned north bumping into Vietnam. My father said that we are very close to where we are going. We then went up north and stopped in Hong Kong to gather silks and other asian goods. We were finding a fast route to get these goods. We went on foot until we were out of China and into Russia. we then exited Russia by going south and into Mongolia. Our traveling stopped when we reached Bangledesh to gather the rest of the goods beside the ones we traded for in china. Now it was time to go home. if we make it back in the estimated time we wil have succeded by finding a better route to south east Asia.

We were now heading back and went northeast, retracing our steps until we were in Russia and we traveled west. When we where at the border of Russia we then took the same route back to Venice, making it in the estimated time of 24 years.

Marco Polo died in 1324

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