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The Edisto River Canoe and Kayak Trail Commission (ERCK) conducts trips on the Edisto River (duh), but for their last scheduled trip for this season they departed from their home river to do a trip on the Combahee. The Combahee is the “C” in the ACE Basin, but I had never paddled it. This looked … Read More “Paddling the Combahee with ERCK” »
OK, dear readers, I’ve been battling a bad case of the flu. I had a blog post about a kayaking trip in the works, but haven’t been able to concentrate long enough to finish writing it. Same goes for research and writing scripts for new podcast episodes. I hate for there to be any interruption … Read More “The Flu interrupts things here” »
I’m getting slack about this. I’ll try to do better. New podcast episode dropped a week ago.
A new podcast episode is out. I’ve embedded it below:
Yeah, it’s been a hell of a year. It started with big plans for travel and other projects. It ended with depression and wondering where things are going in 2025. There were lots of ups and downs along the way. On the positive side, I started my new podcast, Carolina Ghost Towns. That’s been a … Read More “2024 Wrap Up” »
Each year about this time I get lots of comments like this – “You would make a great Santa!” This year it went even further. I was invited to be Santa for a local Christmas parade. I declined, mostly because I wouldn’t be able to find a good suit in the short time before the … Read More “Saint Nicholas – Sinterklaas – Santa Claus” »
We knew there was a storm coming. We had charged up all of our devices and power blocks knowing that we would lose power. We had stocked up on a few things that we could cook easily on a camp stove. We were ready. …or so we thought. Hurricane Helene really did a number on … Read More “Going to Helene and (almost) Back” »