Findings from the Field

Findings from the Field

June 13th, 2010
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Navarre/Pensacola Beach, FL
Navarre/Pensacola Beach, FLI arrived here late afternoon and almost immediately found myself being chauffeured around the area by Donna and Kerry Troy, friends of friends.  Kerry was a NYC police officer and after the events of 9/11 he and...
June 10th, 2010
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Bird in oil
“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore."-Paddy Chayefsky It’s pictures like this that have finally pushed me to the point where I have to act.  Signing petitions and sending donations, as important as both acts are to do, were...
November 9th, 2009
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A Few Final Thoughts…
We saw Russia and the U.S. at the same time and came within 900 miles of the North Pole. We visited Greenland and Alaska in the same summer & on the same boat. We saw the water temp go from 70 degrees to 30.5 We dodged icebergs in two major...
September 14th, 2009
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How Can You Not Like A Place That Has Bathtub Races?
We arrived here in Nome on the 10th and have been exploring ever since.  This city of around 4,000 sits 102 miles below the Arctic Circle and the differences from where we’ve been are dramatic if not subtle.  To take stock of where we...
September 8th, 2009
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Point Barrow, Alaska
We arrived here in Barrow, AK September 4th and have spent the past few days catching up on email, picking up a part that was shipped to us (and again, a very special thanks to Judge Karen Hegyi for allowing us to have it shipped to her office...
August 28th, 2009
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In the Ice
In the Ice Field
July 15th, 2009
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Words Fail
Left Nuk this morning at 4:00 a.m. and will be dropping the hook in Sondre Stromfjord around 10:30 tonight.  We’ll remain here for the next few days exploring this 100 mile long fjord and hopefully upload some pictures and/or video.  In...
June 23rd, 2009
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Still in Halifax
Halifax Rain Still in Halifax, which was more or less expected.  When we left Newport we knew that there were still some jobs that needed to be attended to but also knew life would be a bit easier if not less expensive up here.  We’ve been...
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