Season 1, Episode 10. Season finale. This final episode closes the road stories of Season One and turns inward. Before there were long drives north, cold coastlines, and strangers holding doors open, there was a dorm room at Western Michigan University, an unplanned interruption, and a moment that quietly changed […]

Season 1, Episode 9 A Thanksgiving escape turns into a long winter push across Quebec and Labrador — bad coffee, hard cold, ferries, snow, and the unexpected kindness of strangers. This is a field-tape episode about what happens when you get far enough out that you can’t perform competence anymore… […]

Restless Viking Radio — Season One, Episode Eight Part 5 of the Cape Jones Saga We’re camped on the rocks at Longue Pointe with ten people, freighter canoes below us, and a simple problem: we need two boats, and we have one. At 6:30 in the morning, Jimmie shows up […]

Chisasibi doesn’t welcome visitors loudly. It watches first. In this episode, a single encounter inside a tired northern commercial center quietly determines whether the journey to Cape Jones will happen at all. A man named Jimmie. Long silences. No clear answers. And a decision made without ever being spoken aloud. […]

Mamoweedow Restless Viking Radio — Season One, Episode Six The Cape Jones Series — Part Three Before we ever reached Cape Jones, we crossed to Fort George Island for Mamoweedow — a gathering where the Cree return each year to remember, dance, and keep the story alive. What begins with […]

Northbound / Longue Pointe Restless Viking Radio – Season 1, Episode 5 Cape Jones Series – Part 2 The morning after the fire at Chisasibi, we packed up camp and drove farther north — toward Longue Pointe, one of the last places pavement reaches in eastern North America. What we […]

Restless Viking Radio The James Bay Road isn’t just long — it’s alone. In this episode, Chuck begins a northern run toward James Bay, driving thirteen hundred miles into a landscape shaped by hydro dams, silence, and history that runs deeper than the road itself. What starts as a convoy […]

Some Search and Rescue calls are all logistics—maps, radios, boots in the mud. And then there are the ones that stay with you. In this episode, Chuck recounts a quiet rescue that began as a routine missing-person call and became something more human: a young mother, injured and alone overnight […]

In Episode 2, I face one of travel’s great equalizers: doing laundry in a foreign country. What starts as a simple chore turns into a comedy of confusion, humility, and one very opinionated pair of socks. If you’ve ever stood in front of a foreign washing machine praying for a […]

In Season 1, Episode 1 of Restless Viking Radio, I walk into an REI looking for a pair of boots… and walk out with a lesson I didn’t know I needed. What starts as a simple shopping trip turns into a conversation about adventure, purpose, and the strange way a […]