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 […]

Most of our adventures start too early, too far, and with a plan that collapses faster than a cheap tent on the Labrador coast. This is Restless Viking Radio — stories from the road, the workshop, and the edges of maps. Some are funny. Some are not. But every one […]