🚀 go-pugleaf

She denies this appellation, as bestowed by PM, but does she qualify?
  Having sailed alone around the world, or, at least been away for some
seven months, and arriving back from opposite direction to which she
started - some accolades seem due.
  Hero?  Heroine, is the more apt title, if title there be, but while a
mixed group of teens may not object to being collectively called "guys",
they might object to being called "gals".  Hence, hero, not heroine, raises
no cry of discrimination.  Most actresses nowadays are actors.
  Someone who is idolised by others is deemed a hero, so maybe she will be
heroic, like it or not, in the eyes of others.
   Yet, if you sail alone, having made adequate preparation, and reacted to
emergencies as they arose, then a long ocean trip can be mainly a big yawn -
so where's the heroics?
   On the other hand, the open ocean can catch you unawares, especially if
asleep at night, so some heroism is demanded to undertake the trip in the
first place.
    Again, can a person in almost constant contact (electronically) with
family and friends, be deemed to have travelled alone?  Certainly,
single-handed, in a physical sense.  But not cut-off completely.
    Did Joshua Slocum, years ago, have radio, or other contact?
    Or Alain Bombard, French doctor, who traversed the Atlantic in open
inflated life-raft, living off raw fish, plankton, and rain water? He proved
that shipwrecked mariners could survive, with minimum of fishing tackle,
etc - with a touch of beri-beri the only likely malnutrition.
    So, how about the oldest person to circumnavigate?  Any centenarians
volunteering?