Archive for May, 2011
It was ten years ago when we pedaled our gear-laden mountain bikes along Chile’s Lago General Carrera and caught our first glimpse of Chile’s wild and wonderful Rio Baker (Baker River) watershed. Never before had we experienced such a vast and ecologically diverse corner of the planet – and our… Read the rest
That night blurred into morning without sleep to divide the days. By the distance we had remaining, it would be a close race to make it to my destination with overhead sunlight to enter the pass. I revved the engine and felt the hull push through the oncoming waves, it… Read the rest
From Albuquerque, highway 25 sprawls northeast to Santa Fe and Taos, alongside vast mountain ranges, beside pastel-red adobe homes and flashing casino lights, past cholla cacti and ranching supply stores and tribal reservations. The Rio Grande River Gorge cuts through the landscape, quietly winding south under a brilliant blue sky.… Read the rest
“Swreeee, skreeee, squeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!” woke me from the deadest kind of sleep. “Where am I?” I thought for a moment…
Opening my eyes, I squinted toward the sky, a mess of flapping wings. “Swreeee, skreeee, squeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“What the..?”
I sat up, wrapping the sheet around me in the cool morning air…… Read the rest
The night wind persisted, shifting northeast, which forced us off-course by nearly 30 degrees. So I tacked south and could still made a bit of easting… “East is east”–I’d take what I could get.
By dawn we were triple reefed, the headsail wound to less than half its size. See… Read the rest
