The storm passed in the night. By morning, the lake was where the street should be. Some things don’t get safer once you understand them. They just get more interesting.

Seven miles of open Lake Michigan. A ranger who wasn’t sure what to do with a float plan. And a lake that doesn’t care whether you made it or not. Restless Viking Radio.

Behind an unmarked wooden door on a cobblestone street in Sardinia, there is a winery that doesn’t sell its wine. Poppins was not prepared for this. Culture isn’t something you learn. It’s something you stumble into.

Bahalla is a former junkyard dismantling shop on three acres that mostly runs itself. Mostly. On a cold Saturday morning, my heater screams and the computer gets judgmental. Then the cat sabotages the electronics bench, and nothing I was supposed to do actually gets done. There’s a difference between a […]

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 […]