Prepare for a wild, wind-in-your-hair ride over the waves -- all totally worth it when you are close enough to smell a whale's breath.

BBC: A coastal Qu��bec road trip

"So many sick things have happened, " says Haruki Murakami, one of Japan's leading novelists (A Wild Sheep Chase, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle).

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

Mr. THISSE: It's still a very wild area, but now there's a huge wind tower sticking up.

NPR: New York Towns Hope Wind Power Will Save Economy

The need for a strong, steady breeze means that many of the best sites for wind farms are just the sort of wild and windswept uplands that rural campaigners want to preserve.

ECONOMIST: Wind farms