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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Bringing Paragliding to the Masses, Outside Magazine
This months (Feb, 2012) Outside Magazine features photo taken by Jody MacDonald of a flight we tried to get for over a month last year in the Azores. One mistake out here and you end up in the cold Atlantic. Luckily, it works out. Continue reading
Posted in Blog
Tagged asas sao miguel, azores, cliffs, coast, flying, magazine, niviuk, ocean, outside, outside magazine, paragliding, sao miguel, sea
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Preparing Discovery for new Adventures
Its cold, I have a flu, and Discovery sits on the hard. We are in Ceuta, some lost Spanish city on the northern coast of Africa, In the distance Gibraltar looms across the straights, and a little further along I can just about make out the small town of Tarifa, sitting there almost teasing while Discovery and I get ready. Ship yards, Mmm don’t all Captains and crew love em? Great places, where your dearly loved boat gets ripped apart and all the little corners that you never see get cleaned, checked and parts replaced. Continue reading
Posted in Captain's Log
Tagged adventure, discovery, ocean odyssey, refit, remodel, seon crockford, spain
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10 easy ways to have an amazing 2012
For the first time in years as Christmas neared this 2011 I thought of making a few New Year’s resolutions. In the past I’ve always avoided it as I tend to dream pretty big and I didn’t like looking at that list at the end of the year and feel bummed I hadn’t learned three languages or surfed Jaws yet. As 2012 neared I still had nothing on paper. Then a week in January went by…still nothing. And then I not-so-suddenly realized that the problem I’ve always had with resolutions is that they go absolutely against what I think we really should be doing to lead joyful lives. 1) They focus on the past or future (instead of the present) and 2) they tend to be totally self-focused. “I want to…”. Those are three words filled with all kinds of treachery. Continue reading
Posted in Blog
Tagged 180 degrees south, anthropology, bagit movie, biosphere, daily show, environment, facebook, food coop, health, inside job, league of conservation voters, local harvest, michael pollan, monsanto, nature, new years, ode magazine, organic food, outside magazine, plastic, plastic bottles, resolution, society, ted talks, TV, twitter, wade davis
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