Many cultures have an enduring image of a hermit alone in the woods or mountains apart from others. Thoreau (1854/2004) famously started Walden as follows: “When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor” (p. 3). Likewise, Bodhidharma founded Zen Buddhism around 500 A.D. in Shaolin Temple on Mount Sun, Henan Province, China, after meditating for 9 years in cave ( Pine, 1987). Although some people might like to go to the ocean to meditate, introspection seems better suited to secluded woods and mountains rather than the open area of the ocean.