(Click here for Part 1) The only upside of being blinded by apocalyptic search light - three times - is that I rowed so far onto the bank of San Pablo bay that I found myself in flat water and surprisingly, in better current flow. You can see from the chart of my HR, how [...]
(Click here for Part 1) It's 6:30pm at night and I am wandering around Vallejo, sore, tired and desperately hungry. All three taquerias in my vicinity are closed. I follow my nose. This leads me to a Chinese restaurant, where the answer to everything is no. ‘May I order half a $12 portion of bok [...]
From the outset I knew that rowing to Vallejo was going to be tough. How much would the tide help me? I didn’t know. Could I row 18 nautical miles before the tide turned against me? I was going to find out. My route was a 36 mile roundtrip from Paradise Cay; my plan to [...]