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Two Wheels To Paradise
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Tagged Amateur Hour, Hall of Infamy, Off The Map, Paradise Island, Rough Landings, Send Lawyers Guns and Money
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A few years ago my girlfriend and I decided to take a trip. We’ve been together off and on since high school, being from the same town in Texas, but we hadn’t taken the big plunge by getting on a … Continue reading
And Then It Flew Into Space [LAUNCH PARTY!] |
THE ACCIDENTAL EXTREMIST and LOADS OF PROSE LLC PRESENT: THE DIRTY LAUNDRY SERIES Volume 18: True Dirt from Far and Wide We’re joining forces! On Thursday night, May 21, please join us in New York’s East Village as we officially … Continue reading
You Will Like! Is Famous Waterslide! [Wardrobe Malfunctions]
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Tagged Amateur Hour, Europe, Evelyn Spence, Off The Map, Rough Landings, Water Water Everywhere
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To explain why the lifeguard at the Aquapark Tatralandia in Liptovský Mikulas—a small town near Slovakia’s High Tatra mountains—was screaming at me to get out of the pool, I have to explain why I was wearing Pete’s long underwear. And … Continue reading
Brogue Wave [Amateur Hour] |
A surf trip to the Scottish Highlands is not something to be undertaken lightly. At its North end, Scotland just gives up and falls into the Atlantic. Beyond that there are the Orkney and Farrow Islands, then the North Pole. The … Continue reading
Off a Pony, Express [Rough Landings]
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Tagged Amateur Hour, Expedition News, Iceland, Jeff Blumenfeld, Rough Landings, When Animals Attack
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The Icelandic Tourist Board was a new client of my public relations agency and I was thrilled to be visiting the legendary Arctic Open Midnight Sun golf tournament in the northern part of the country, up near the Arctic Circle. … Continue reading
Smell of The Wild [Amateur Hour]
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Tagged Air Travel, Amateur Hour, Hangover, Rachel Chadderdon, Rough Landings, Salmon River, Water Water Everywhere
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I’m from the Northeast, so the term ‘river trip’ doesn’t resonate as much as it does out West. When I agreed to meet a guy friend for one of them on the South Fork of the Salmon River in Central … Continue reading
High Anxiety [Amateur Hour]
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Ten minutes after we began the ascent into the mountains of Colorado, I started getting a wicked altitude headache: a strong, sharp pain that felt like a bad hangover. Jordy – who was tall and handsome and athletic and had … Continue reading
Chariot of Fire [Burning Sensations]
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Tagged Amateur Hour, Half Marathon, Jim Gooch, Rough Landings, Send Lawyers Guns and Money
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I, a fat man, had been circling Portland, Maine’s Back Cove like a dog prepping its bed for most of the summer of 2007. Now intimately acquainted with every pothole, washout and linden tree on the route, I finally turned … Continue reading
13 Epics of Woe [Hall of Infamy] |
A friend from Outside Magazine, Senior Editor Jeremy Spencer, reminded us of this excellent collection of misadventures he edited four years ago. Featuring the likes of Jane Smiley and Jon Lee Anderson, it’s a ghoulish gallery of murderous hitchhikers, lightning strikes, … Continue reading
So Tuesday was a big day for me. Instead of going into my midtown office, I had to travel down to Tribeca to work at one of my firms off-site centers. I knew where to go, but it’s that same feeling … Continue reading