It’s What You Add
November 3, 2022
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Food is key to enjoying the journey. How many meals? 5 weeks equals 35 days x 3 meals a day, equals 105 meals, and add
A Friendship Fire
October 31, 2022
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Fire. Traveling on your own, you create companions. As the I-Ching says: He who travels with two, lessens the party by one. He who travels
Paddling Inside
October 25, 2022
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I was born by a river and should have been a fish. Instead, I get to paddle. I love what’s underneath water (as I love
Death Enhancing Life
October 21, 2022
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Anyone facing death feels a surge of life flow through them. I’ll have the simmer of this feeling for the five weeks of my trip.
A hat for all seasons
October 18, 2022
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So..? I know women who have a lot more shoes.
Wannigan…what you love to hate
October 13, 2022
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This is a wannigan, an old-fashioned piece of canoeing kit, not unlike myself. Made by my brother 37 years ago out of 3/4 inch plywood,
First hours
October 6, 2022
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Silence When the plane leaves, the silence drifts in like a tide, or a cat stretching. There is only one other silence more profound (I
The journey begins
September 28, 2022
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The Blue Canoe, a technical journal for solo canoeing in the arctic The Beaver plane tied up at the float base on Back Bay in