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Come As You Are: How Our Old Paddling Gear...
Muriel was tapping her toe. Ninety-two-year-old Phil knew most of the words. The accordion player, who wasn’t a whole...
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A Life Well Wasted
Jimmy Buffett died yesterday.
When his box set Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads was released, I was pushing rubber down...
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Your Boat Sucks
The local shop showed up at our annual spring whitewater paddling festival with these white capital letters screened across...
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Still Happy To Be Here
It didn’t make any sense to my father. He was a pragmatic man. I’m a truck driver’s son. After...
Off the Tongue
Never Turn Back
I spent a lot of time this summer floating in eddies. Mostly alone. These were the same eddies of...
Off the Tongue
Why Paddling Is Still The Perfect Slow-Speed Travel
“High-speed rail may be the future. But in a world whose future may depend on us all slowing down,...