Few things inspire as much awe as spotting a whale breach the surface of the ocean or watching a humpback as it slaps its fins against the water. There are many places where you can view these enormous cetaceans, but Maui offers a special opportunity for adventurers. November through May, North Pacific Humpback Whales make …
Month: September 2017
Starting is what’s important
This could be fun. I’m perusing a large backlog of emails, a byproduct of being on the road for the past three weeks. There’s a line item in a message from the Los Padres Forest Association mentioning the Island View Trail. A click on a link brings me to the race webpage. The course for …
Be Where You Are
Several years ago Rolf Potts, author of Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, gave a presentation at ‘The Do Lectures’. As part of the speaker series for that year, each presenter was asked to identify a ‘Big Do’ and a ‘little do’ as part of their talk. Rolf’s ‘Big Do’ …
The Least Interesting Man in the Room
“What do you listen to on your road trips?“ Good question. While the hard drive in my car has a wide variety of music stored on it, on most long drives I listen to podcasts. You can find a wide array of subject matter on iTunes, and I have gigabytes of audio downloaded on my …
