If you lose or forget to bring a cable,adapter or charger,check with your hotel. Most hotels now have a drawer full of cables,adapters and chargers others have left behind,and probably have the one you are missing. You can often claim it after borrowing it.
So that morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy . . . just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where “there” is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.