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Take over our Twitter feed!

We’re enjoying getting to know our fans and fellow onlookers through in-person introductions at events and through social media like our Facebook & Twitter pages.  Now we’d like to let people get to know you! Email us your funny, insightful, inspiring or amazing quote and/or link, and we’ll post it.  Make sure it fits the theme […]

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Venice, Part Two: Ocean Rowing in the Serene Republic

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 […]

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I find myself in Venice – Part One: There are oars, so I write

This late summer represents the last chunk of time my brother will have over the next two years as he finishes up his Marine ROTC program at the University of Washington, where upon completion his time will be property of the USMC and not his own.  This brings us to an incredible family trip to […]

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Keeping Track of Time – 455, 454, 453…

At times we’re extremely busy, at times we’re hurrying up to wait a while.  No matter what our pace, the clock continues to tick down toward the 2011 Atlantic Rowing Race – 453 days.  453 DAYS!!!  15 months from now our families will stand beach-side on la Gomera, Spain to bid us farewell for what […]

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There Is No Ocean In The Desert

Picture provided by SeattlePI.com.  Since there’s not much going on on the visible front for OAR Northwest until October – there is a bunch going on in the background, most definitely – I thought I would give some insight into who I am and what I’m doing while waiting to row the Atlantic Ocean. For […]