My awesome beard is big, and thick enough to hold two pencils. It can hold a 1/4-20 4-inch stainless steel bolt. Also a carabiner. My awesome beard took 8 months to grow… and I even trimmed it a few times. It got respect in Senegal. Men would motion to the beard and give nods of agreement even […]
Author: Jordan
For the last few days in a row, we have been visited by two or three large whales. They have large, coal-colored bodies and a small fin on the back well behind their blowhole. They appear, give a deep intake of air, almost industrial in sound, and expose at least thirty feet of their body […]
Nighttime shifts have become everyone’s unanimous favorite. In the same breath, they can also be the most terrifying. Either way, they seem to be the most consistently awe-inspiring. In calm weather, any fear of night abates with the stillness. The first stars arrive as pinpoints in the sky, and yet long after the sun has set, the haze of daylight […]
Days of sea anchor… Nighttime rowing… Nighttime philosophy… Ocean rower’s jetlag. Beneath starry skies on a moonless night, the waves seem to me as if the cortex of my brain had become flattened and unraveled. No longer a mass of critical thinking, but a pelagic soup, as thoughts float freely and unbound to any logic. The silly […]
It’s impossible to be in such a slow moving boat and not think about who has come before us. Our experience seems so much like theirs in a few ways, and so completely different in most. One of the biggest differences is that we know where we are going, know that Miami really does exist, […]