Position: 44°34’28″N 121°37’10″W Back in late August 2003, lightning struck near Mount Jefferson in central Oregon – twice. Both strikes ignited fires that over a period of two weeks consumed some 90,000 acres of forest. More than 2,000 crew fought …
Position: 44.62N, -121.47W There’s a rule of adventure travel that I call the Rule of 9s. It goes something like this: when visiting a site of natural beauty, if there are 900 people at the visitors center, 900 yards away …
Three weeks and two days after landing in the States we are officially Pfizered up. DoubleVaxxed! Ready for anything. And as is the story of the rest of my life, our timing was just a little bit off. Let me …
Position: 46°10’41″N 123°58’51″W What Oregon’s coast lacks in hospitality it makes up for in beauty. Its bluff, jagged shoreline offers sailors little respite from the wide expanse of the north Pacific Ocean. Deep canyons lie mere miles offshore and cold …
Back in September 2008 I organized a charter around the San Juan Islands crewed by my best mates, Hugh, Tom and Bill. Sadly, Bill passed away last week after a years-long struggle with early onset Parkinson’s. Bill, Tom and I …
Position: 41°12’54″N 13°33’54″E Each Wednesday Gaeta hosts a traditional open-air market, a hangover from the days when staple goods weren’t available locally. Like farmer’s markets in America there is plenty of fresh, seasonal fruit and veggies on hand. Unlike America, …
Aleta.life is pleased as punch to welcome our own inveterate booze hound Tipple Timmy, who this week offers his deeply informed perspective on Kentucky bourbon and how to enjoy it. Take it away, Tim! Tipple Timmy’s Rules of Bourbon are… …
Take a break and spend a couple of minutes with us as we walk Marlon along Gaeta’s beachfront. It’s empty now, but you see that bulldozer? It’s preparing the sand for a few thousand sun loungers. Shortly, those loungers will …
You Only Live Once The New York Times ran an article about the YOLO economy recently. America’s Millennials burned out by a year of working via Zoom are waking up to the idea that there may be other things in …
