Time-Out, GenX
Get home for dinner before the street lights turn on, I reminisced tonight, as the hum of the mercury lights kicked on nearby. Nostalgia is seeping into the quiet corners of my corona lock-down experience. It’s taken a few days for me to identify the subtle flavor in my thoughts…it’s childhood, GenX. I was a…
Afloat at the Dawn of Corona
Prized rum, pictured above, carefully tailored for Team Get Kraken by a most thoughtful and generous neighbor (P.A.), who epitomizes the Day Islander community spirit (no pun intended). Wait, isn’t this blog about some rookie training for the Seventy48? Yes, this blog is about my training for the Seventy48, as Team Get Kraken (N =…
Overcoming Defiance
Until today, my training had been limited to laps of the Day Island lagoon and the Titlow basin – about a mile and quarter each lap with a variety of navigational obstacles making getting into a rhythm a little tricky. A handful of local harbor seals and friendly island neighbors cast inquisitive looks my way…
Seventy48: Get Kraken!
The email came in this afternoon: “Congrats and welcome aboard. You’re in! “ *SQUEEEEEAL* and gulp. I have officially been accepted as a solo rower into the 70-mile, human-powered only race from Tacoma to Port Townsend this June: the Seventy48. It was a natural progression of events… Matthew and I have immersed ourselves each year as…