Book review: Paddle to the Amazon
In the summer of 1980, Don Starkell set out from Winnipeg, Manitoba with his two sons – Jeff, 19, and Dana, 18 – with the goal of canoeing to the mouth of the Amazon River. It seemed impossible and many told Don he would never make it and was foolish for trying, but he spent […]
Kayaking the Black Canyon on Nevada’s Colorado River
It was 6 a.m. when the Desert Adventures company came to pick me up from my hotel. “Thank God I’m still on eastern time,” I thought to myself, “otherwise this would seem almost unreasonably early.” I was staying just off the main strip at the Clarion Hotel & Casino (now closed) just off the main […]