November 11, 2012 Next morning I wandered the steep bluffs of Point Reyes, blood exploding the disused veins of my atrophied sailor’s legs and my tiny sailor’s lungs pulling hard for air.… more →
Murre and the Pacificwrote 6 months ago: November 11, 2012 Next morning I wandered the steep bluffs of Point Reyes, blood exploding the disus … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Below are a few photographs recording the time Murre and I spent along the Oregon, Washington, and t … more →
wrote 6 months ago: At eleven that night I gave up. The pile driver and rock mover continued their work under artificial … more →
wrote 6 months ago: After Grays Harbor, Murre and I were held in Astoria for four days, and then another twelve in Newpo … more →
wrote 6 months ago: October 10 All the next day and into that night the storm blew from the south with a will. Then befo … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Port Townsend, a day in Seattle, Port Angeles, and Grays Harbor. The change in weather is dramatica … more →
wrote 6 months ago: October 9 From Friday Harbor to Aleck Bay to Port Townsend each day opened and filled with the coppe … more →
wrote 7 months ago: Sept 19 – 30 Port McNiell is “tree farming country”, if a sign at the head of the … more →
wrote 7 months ago: More photos of our passage through British Columbia, Port Neville to Victoria. … more →
wrote 7 months ago: September 10 – 18 Some may contest that given my mode of transport I cannot possibly be racing … more →
wrote 8 months ago: September 7 through 10 Departing isn’t so sweet or sorrowful as it is frightening. Even with t … more →
wrote 8 months ago: September 3 – 5 It is freely claimed by residents of other towns in southeast Alaska that Ketc … more →
wrote 8 months ago: September 1 and 2 From Wrangell south toward Prince of Wales Island. A low pressure system is approa … more →
wrote 8 months ago: Even into the present day, Alaska is a boom and bust state, says John McPhee in *Coming into the Cou … more →
wrote 8 months ago: August 27 and 28 If asked to invent from whole cloth a town different in every way from Kake, I woul … more →
wrote 8 months ago: Aug 25 and 26 From Kake it is fifty miles north through Stephens Passage to the Tracy Arm, a long fj … more →
wrote 8 months ago: Aug 22 All I know of Kake is covered by one sentence in the cruising guide: “Kake is a Tlinget … more →
wrote 8 months ago: Murre and I departed Warm Springs in the early morning for the short, fifteen mile hop south to our … more →
wrote 8 months ago: We are underway next morning before eight o’clock. Back in Sergius Narrows the tide is at full … more →