She asked for somewhere warm with a swim-up bar. He delivered. Art Van Furniture was not part of the plan.
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Thunder Bay Island hasn’t had a keeper in decades. The dock and boathouse succumbed to the seas, the forest advanced. The island changed hands. But something is still running anyway.
It’s 4am. She has a key, a target, and very clear instructions not to get caught.
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 […]