A Short Trip To Peru, Part 9—Seriously?
By 12,000 feet, the advertised headache arrives like a bullet train inside the tunnel of my brain. My face is squashed against the window’s ventilation crack, taking in fresh air that's just as thin.
The Long Way Back–A Short Trip To Peru, Part 7
I’ve slowed enough to feel rooted in present. I’m so zen I barely notice I’ve been listening to the same Bon Jovi cassette for four hours.
Should I attribute that to Kambô?
The Kambô Frog and I—A Short Trip To Peru, Part 6
The frog, she says, will enter and scan the body, zero in on toxins, seek and destroy pockets of them. Its entry route involves removing a top layer of skin by means of pencil tip-sized burns, then applying the secretions.
A First Mate, Lost—Barb’s Way
Barb was my badass first mate, the person who made me a better captain.
A Short Trip To Peru, Part 2
Stephan calculates our odds if we get sick. Once the area has 120 cases, he notes quietly, the hospital may not be an option.
No Shirt, No Shoes, But We Have Service: Navigating By Cell Tower in Las Perlas
Sometimes, ya gotta Zoom.
When the World Goes Crazy, Do the Right Thing: Pandemic, Sloth, and Trámite
SV Hanalei spends the pandemic at anchor in Ecuador while we’re locked down in Peru. The borders have closed down and Customs is closing in. Now what?
Advent to Adventure
“Whatever it is you think you’re doing, wherever you think you’re going, something completely different is about to happen. ”