On the Road in the 21st Century
The best road trips aren't planned, they just happen. Jack Kerouac's On the Road seems to just happen; he writes in an episodic, stream-of-consciousness burst of life. Kerouac is a [...]
Close Encounters of the Whale Kind
Sometimes you're favored with fair wind and following seas, and sometimes you're blessed with no wind and a broken engine. Continued: The area known as Penguin Bank, south of [...]
Altitude is your friend
In 1981 I made my first skydive, a static line deployment at Skies West, a sport skydiving center in Loveland, Colorado. That experience radically changed my life in ways [...]
Women Aboard!
Women have always been aboard ship. As passengers, girlfriends, and wives. As sailors, surgeons, nurses, helmsmen, and shipmasters. Women aboard — I got caught up in the history back in [...]
Adventures on the Colorado Wine Route
Twenty-five years ago Bob and I wrote Rocky Mountain Wineries; a travel guide to the wayside vineyards. When the book went to press in 1994 there were forty-nine wineries in the [...]
Sea Trials (or, How NOT to sail around the world)
Wendy Hinman is an adventurer, speaker and the award-winning author of two books, Tightwads on the Loose and Sea Trials; Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire. Tightwads [...]
China’s Mother Road
..."You see," says Li... "We want to live. Right now we are just shengcun. We are just surviving. We want to shenghuo. We want to live! You know? We want [...]
Water Ghosts
Chinese ghosts... I have an abiding fascination in the long history and culture of China. My mother had a lacquer tri-fold screen with small shelves on which she kept some [...]
Coming of Age at Sea: The Guinea Boat
Merellä" (At Sea) Oil on canvas by Albert Edelfelt, a Finnish artist, in 1883. Thanks to Curtis William Erling White and Barista Uno, shipmates aboard All Things Nautical, a [...]