This guy is pretty awesome.
Mooney, a 40-year-old community outreach and public affairs officer at BrooklynÕs ASA Institute of Business and Computer Technology, intends to singlehandedly row across the AtlanticÑfrom GorŽe (an island town that is part of the West African country of Senegal) to Bahia, Brazil, and then up through the Caribbean and along the U.S. East Coast to his home in New York. The 8,000-mile GorŽe ChallengeÑduring which Mooney will make short stops to deliver HIV awareness and prevention messages in key nations, particularly in South America and the CaribbeanÑwill take an estimated eight to nine months.
And a guy I just spent close to two hours interviewing for an upcoming story that will be out next week is also awesome, but for an entirely different reason.
