In Which The Weather Gods Taunt Me Again
Last time I was out in Florida to get my P-51 checkout, we got in almost two days of flying before the weather shut us down. I had my procedures […]
Category Archives: roadtrip
And Away We Go
It’s been close to three months since my last Roadtrip post, and that one wasn’t even about me. This should not be surprising: it’s been a full four months since […]
A Thanksgiving on Planet Tokyo, 1987
It was late November in 1987, in a cramped studio apartment lost in the urban sprawl west of Tokyo, that I realized Socrates was wrong. Hunger, Cicero had quoted him […]
Chalk up One More Lost Soul
I love telling the story about how – how many years ago was it? – Beth and I were sitting there on the floor of a friend’s house and I […]
Torres del Paine, in Two Stories
I want to tell you two stories about yesterday. There’s the story about the lousy bus connections and dodgy weather. About the hostel with mediocre, overpriced food. The steep, muddy […]
That’s All, Folks
And just like that, we’re done. I woke this morning at 3:00 a.m. to the sound of flat water moving past the hull, and a blissful lack of pings from […]
Under the Hood
For the past month, we’ve been living in an enormous machine, transported and sustained by massive, magical contraptions that hum and whir in the mysterious caverns beneath our feet. These […]
Traditions
At Pole, Megan used to say, “always” meant two seasons. Something happens two years in a row and it will etch itself into the institutional memory as having always been […]
Drake Passage, Northbound at Night
The half-moon watches, standing low on edge in the midnight sky as the swell takes us. Our bow rises in slow motion, geometry pitching the bridge backward as she comes […]
Once More Into the Breach
A hundred miles north of the King George Island on our homeward run there’s no question that we’re back in the Drake. The deck is pitching enough to make walking […]
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