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, […]
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Day 38: What we eat
The first two questions people ask us are: 1) “Are you crazy?” 2) “Where do you go to the bathroom?” The third? “So what the heck do you guys eat out there?!” Our menu took us two months of planning to allocate proper nutrition and caloric intake for this Atlantic journey. Here’s what’s cookin’ …
Going out on long journeys with monotonous physical activity is a wonderful meditation and very peace-giving. Sure, there is the odd scary bit where your adrenal glands fire, oars break and you experience extreme stress. The reward of pushing through the extreme, though, is a meditative, physical presence – A connective existence that is simple, […]
Daily Update 3.4 Week 5: Module 3: Date 3/1/31 Dissolved Oxygen (DO) is exactly what it sounds like. It is a measure of the dissolved oxygen in a medium. The amount of dissolved oxygen that the water can hold depends on the temperature and salinity of the water. Cold water can hold more dissolved oxygen […]
I am not a rower. Yes, it’s true. I’m on a boat with 3 men whose combined years of rowing experience is more than the years of my life. I’ve never followed rowing, and if you had asked me a year ago about the Canadian Men’s 8+ in Beijing (i.e.- the race Adam won a […]