Instead of the two hours band-aid naps as we would have been taking on the boat we pushed thorough the entire day rolling past the border around seven pm, giddy with exhaustion, singing both USA’s and Canada’s national anthems, of which the three Yanks in this crew will have to return the honor of learning […]
Author: Jordan
Standing on the dock in Tacoma I felt the temperature drop considerably around 5pm, our scheduled time of departure. With it came the north wind. I paid it little mind thinking this was merely the erratic gusts that often come with the transition of day into night and would die after nightfall. I was more […]
At 7pm on Friday October 15th the crew will leave from Tacoma, Washington for Victoria, British Columbia where we hope that if you are in the area, you will stop by and see our boat. Then come to a cocktail party presentation and learn about our upcoming row, and our charity Right to Play (click […]
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I Sign a Book Contract
Last Friday I sat down with my agent and signed a book contract to write about the 2006 trip across the North Atlantic. It took all of five minutes; just a few signatures and some initialing as we conversed at her local coffee shop close to Leschi Beach here in Seattle culminated the first two […]
Venice is, first and foremost, a city upon the sea and a place whose fate has always been intertwined with the ocean. Throughout the roughly 2000 years that this 200 square-mile lagoon has been settled, the ocean has been a protective wall of water, provided fish to eat, and salt to trade. The sea was […]