We have gotten onto one of our few passages of real open sea, and the squall is making the boat feel like, well, a boat. That's quite nice. The weather is still holding, although it's clouding over, there's a storm a-comin', and the forecast promises a 100% chance of rain for tomorrow's visit of Ketchikan. …
Author: Mika LaVaque-Manty
I'm a professor of political science at the University of Michigan. I'm a philosopher by training, and I teach political theory.
Day 2: We are sailing!
One of the misfortunes of growing up in Europe in the 1970s was that one would have to become intimately familiar with Rod Stewart's "Sailing." Here, see for yourself this lovely 1975 rendition on German TV:The song has been stuck in my head for the last couple of weeks as we've been getting ready for …
Day 1: Ann Arbor-Vancouver
So far, it's been wine and rhododendrons. (Well, no wine yet.) Sure, we had to get up at 3:30 a.m., but that and the excellent service of the (alas, bankrupt) Frontier Airlines got us to Vancouver even ahead of schedule, 10:30 a.m. PST. That gave us some time to explore some of our favorite places …
Into the Not So Wild 