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Baja 1000, Part One: Contingency day

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

Wow. Just wow. Now that was an experience. It’s going to take a while to digest and write about, so in the interest of keeping family sane in the face of inevitable media reports of the deaths and serious injuries that occured, let me first say that I survived, in one [...]

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It begins…

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

We’re just heading down to the race start. Apparently, there’s some way to track our progress online; we are Trophy Truck #34. I’ll be driving from about 11pm tonight until about 7am tomorrow. Next update from Cabo… hopefully!

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Next adventure: the Baja 1000

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Woohoo! This week I will be part of a team driving the Baja 1000. It’s one of those things that I’ve always wanted to do, but never thought would be possible. It should be a pretty amazing week, though I’m definitely having a few of the “what the hell did I [...]

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Buffalo to Seattle: Day Two

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Well, they say to be careful what you wish for.
The day started out earlier than I was expecting: I was wide awake at 6:30am, and seeing as how I was nearly 3000 miles from home, I felt like just getting on with things. So much for plans for Maid of the Mist or the [...]

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Victoria, B.C., by Seaplane

Monday, March 19th, 2007

This past weekend my friend Becca hopped out from the east coast, and we headed up to Victoria, British Columbia. We spent a couple of days exploring this somewhat European city, and of course pursuing good food and wine. I’ve uploaded a Victoria by Seaplane photo set to Flickr with a few more [...]

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Back from Futaleufu

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

I’m just back from about two weeks in Argentina and Chile, where I did Bio Bio’s Futaleufu trip (by way of Pete and Momentum River Expeditions), with a couple of extra days in Buenos Aires. The trip was fantastic — great whitewater, great people, and great food. My Futaleufu photo set has some of [...]

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