OAR NorthwestDecember 7 — Get up to surf. Eat a quick breakfast. From the Surf camp come Nejma from Nice, Cole from Adelaide and Conner from Dublin. Today we go to Gorée Island. Traffic through Dakar on this Friday is atrocious, but the novelty of being in Africa, Senegal, and Dakar has not quite worn off. Vibrant murals cover […]
Narrow, maze-like streets between four and six feet wide crisscross the tiny island of N’Gor. Markus and I ran, circling the island perhaps two or three times getting lost and found at every intersection before rounding random corners to find a view of the ocean. Well manicured front doors and neatly swept paths give way […]
I looked outside the cabin window at the stars above the clouds over the Atlantic, and imagined I was in a giant lawn dart lobbed on a great circle from DC to Dakar. We beat the sunrise to Senegal. Customs, baggage claim, men eager to help with bags, our polite declines took us outside. Markus […]
Interested in group dynamics? I am. I will be on a 29-foot rowboat with 3 other stinky, big guys for up to 100 days. How will the four of us interact when we spend all this time on the water together? With no room for a physical exit from the boat? The social sciences give […]
The James Robert Hanssen trucks out of Seattle tomorrow, bound for Senegal. After applying the shrink-wrap hug into the wee hours of Monday morning, we’ve all had a brief opportunity to do this: … … yup, a whole lotta nothing! Well, at least a whole lot of other stuff NOT related to a […]