December and January arrived, and as the winter storms of the Northeast began to close in, we steered the Black Boar back to our permanent command post in Portland, Oregon. We headed home, not in defeat, but satisfied that we had accomplished what we had set out to do on the American Expedition: along our [...]
My Wilderness EMT classes came with books, and even though my certification is long out of date, I’ve kept brushing up. Good thing. On a hunt in Canada’s Northwest Territories, hundreds of miles from the nearest dirt road, I got an impromptu refresher course. I was third in line to get the chance to hunt [...]
As we traveled the final stretch of our expedition the feeling that Trouble was taunting us grew stronger. Hurricane Sandy stormed through the area just before we embarked on our voyage to New York City, and it had been on the back of our minds ever since. We were a long way from Portland, but [...]
The team drove in shifts through the night so we could reach Pennsylvania by dawn. After establishing Field HQ we decided to do some exploring. They should have marked those trails with big red bows instead of big red warning signs. The team is a well mannered bunch, but we haven’t been known to take [...]
We arrived in the middle of bayou country in Louisiana and were well received by the locals. Their southern drawl was fast and often indecipherable, but our translator insisted that it was in fact English. The expedition has no political implications, but we had established contact with the town mayor of Henderson, LA to be [...]
We made our way into Ft. Worth and found ourselves drawn to the commotion of the stockyards. After a quick surveillance the team was in full agreement. This place looked, sounded, and definitely smelled like Trouble. Broken bones, concussions, torn ligaments, busted teeth, paralysis, and the possibility of death. These are standard occupational hazards involved [...]
We arrived in Texas with some promising leads from a young man we met named Gene. He had grown up in the area and said that everything there was bigger, including the supply of Trouble. We maneuvered the Black Boar along frontage roads and remnants of the historic Route 66 feeling optimistic about the inside [...]
After a restless night we packed our gear and covered the tracks from our camp. Our intention was to make our way into Texas, but there was something that beckoned us to remain in the area. We began to see and feel things that are still hard to put into words. Was the sleep deprivation [...]
Cerrillos, NM We sauntered into Cerrillos, NM at high noon and it seemed as if we had taken a step back in time. Ghost towns were a regular sight on our expedition, but this one still had a pulse. Antique shops that were antiques in their own right and hole in the wall cantinas lined [...]
We broke camp in Colorado long before sunrise to get a head start on our trail into New Mexico. The team was feeling restless for the road, so we tried to utilize the energy it provided the best we could. We had heard reports of sweat lodges and hot springs scattered around our intended destination. [...]
