My family fought at Valley Forge, Chickamauga, the Pacific and Korea. But just weeks before entering flight training at Pensacola, I broke the mold. Here's why.
What would you do if you encountered a grey wolf on a narrow mountain trail? This is what I did.
What if your trimaran could speak of her 40,000 sea-mile Pacific circumnavigation?
Turning 77, mortality feels close...
This scenario is based on my only out-of-body experience. Floating above my body felt very liberating and pleasant. As Ram Das said, "Like taking off a tight pari of shoes."
What would you do if attacked by pack of half-starved feral dogs?
In the South China Sea, desperate fishers-turned-pirates sometimes attack yachts. Everyone involved must assume the other party is armed. What would you do if you aren't?
What do you do when the tower requests that you make an immediate landing when you're not properly set up? Easy peasy. Simply execute a carrier-style approach in your baby Cessna.
Welcome aboard the world's first sail-assisted commercial vessel, Shin Aitoku Maru, in Kawasaki, Japan. It's 1983 and the oil shock three years previously has spurred this landmark development in sail. But will it save fuel costs underway?
An homage to Jack Kerouac, who wrote unindented words on long scrolls at breakneck speed like stampeding wild horses.