BVI Sailing
We absolutely crushed this trip. It was late October and we were sitting in a small cabin in East Tennessee. I was on call for work and Casey had come to visit as well as do some motorcycle riding through the amazing autumn foliage of the Appalachian Mountains. We had done an incredible amount of planning for a...
About 4 years ago, I met two girls from Japan who were studying abroad in Florida. The three of us took my boat out, went fishing, and even had a sushi dinner on the day I speared a nice cobia. When they left, we said our goodbyes and I didn’t think I’d ever see either of them again. This...
Once again, I jumped into the blue.
The water was a little murky. We call it, "whale snot," but I don't know what it really is; some kind of ocean particulate that tarnishes the visibility of an otherwise deep turquoise ocean. Lucky for us, the sharks don't care about the lower visibility and swim up to us just the same. ...
My eyes opened in a panic as I tried to decide if I was being hit by a tornado as the wind howled outside, shaking my house on wheels. Perhaps worst of all, I was incredibly cold and couldn’t figure out why. This was my first real night in “Ethel the Wonder Truck”, the affectionate name given to the...
As discussed in the last post, “Fishing for Dreams,” I was a weird kid.
Not much has changed since then, I’m still weird, and pretty damn happy about it. One of the many upsides of great weirdness is the great friends you have. Sure, normal people probably have more friends, but I’m a quality, not quantity person. Normal people are...
“That’s crazy,” is the response most people have upon seeing photographs of sharks bumping their noses against my camera housing. Despite my best efforts to assuage their fears, most people aren’t going to easily let go of their image of a big, bad shark. Through no fault of our own, we have developed a deeply ingrained terror of sharks. ...
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Open our hearts to the goodness of the universe, and the universe graciously delivers. I didn’t know it, but I was going to have one of those days.
I didn’t go paragliding with the intent of thermaling, if I had, there would have been a cozy jacket on my body so that I didn’t turn into a popsicle at higher...
The Garden Hotel in Narita Japan has a beautiful little lounge area just a short walk from the lobby with an excellent view of some rice fields just across the canal. This is generally where I can find a nice place to work that gets me out of my room, but still has the all important wifi. As I...
Few things bring people together faster than living in a car. The conversation goes like this.
Person 1: “Where you do live?”
Person 2: “I live in my car.”
Person 1: “That’s great! You wanna drink some beer and go climbing later?”
Person 2: “Sweet! Yeah. I’ve got some green too, so we are all set.”
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