Hubbard had a different idea; he wrote to the U.S. Navy requesting permission to leave the country "to visit Central & South America & China" for the purposes of "collecting writing material"—in other words, undertaking a world cruise.
賀伯特則有不同的想法，他寫信給美國海軍，要求准許離開國家去「探訪中南美洲和中國」以「收集寫作材料」為目的，換句話說，就是要環遊世界。