Why I’m Still Paddling
Hi Everyone, People often ask why I turned around and decided to paddle back to the Northwest Angle after reaching Key West so I wrote an essay for Outside about the […]
Category Archives: Angle to Key West
Angle to Key West: Blessing of the Fleet (5/4)
Past McClellenville, SC – May 4, 2013 The wind didn’t stop. It just slammed into me again as I inched forward. It felt routine. The last few days blend […]
Angle to Key West: Round Two (5/3)
North end of Bulls Bay, SC – May 3, 2013 I returned to the water like a boxer leaving his corner after a bad round. Sluggish. Weary. Not wanting to […]
Angle to Key West: Wind and Will (5/2)
Seewe Bay, SC – May 2, 2013 The wind came from first light and never stopped. Endless and alive, it pressed across the salt marshes, roaring, raising white caps on […]
Angle to Key West: Leaving Charleston (5/1)
Isle of Palms, SC – May 1, 2013 I caught the tide as wrong as I could on the Ashley River. The wind blew in my face. My arms felt […]
Angle to Key West: Finish the Story (4/30)
Charleston, SC – April 30, 2013 You never know when you’ll hear the end of a story. I suppose in a book you can feel the weight of pages and […]
Angle to Key West: Flying Metal Tubes (4/17-4/30)
Charleston, SC, Los Angeles, CA, and Minneapolis, MN – April 17-30, 2013 I caught the incoming tide up the Ashley River and slipped past Charleston to an old railroad bridge. […]
Angle to Key West: Charleston (4/16)
Charleston, SC – April 16, 2013 I pull the kayak up a bank of oyster shells pilled just above the high tide line. A giant bridge stretches over the water […]
Angle to Key West: Gators (4/15)
North of Edisto, SC – April 15, 2013 Reptile eyes, leather, scaled skin, the long crooked smile. The way it slides down the bank, gliding, slipping into the water, leaving […]
Angle to Key West: Plagues (4/14)
North of Beaufort, SC – April 14, 2013 The wind shifted in the night and I woke to a swarm of noseeums, tiny biting midges, crawling over my face. They […]
