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Springing Into New Adventures
 Spring is almost upon us, and Colin and I are days away from completing our book Rowed Trip.Since getting back from Syria five months ago, we’ve spent most of our waking hours converting journal notes into a manuscript, and seeing the final product is pretty exciting.
That's not say we didn't squeeze in a bit of slacking and procrastinating (to the dismay of our editor at Doubleday), during which we’ve planned four adventures for this upcoming summer - all in our home province of British Columbia. We are taking our rowboats to a remote archipelago on the West Coast, embarking on a river rafting trip (with the same raft Colin used on the Amazon River), spending a week spelunking in one of Canada’s richest caving regions in the north end of Vancouver Island, and my personal favourite: taking part in Tribal Journeys, a gathering of First Nations Tribes from the West Coast.
We are honored to have been invited to travel with a Salish group to voyage and visit the Suquamish Tribe who are hosting this year’s Tribal Journeys. The mode of travel is in a traditional Salish canoe (45’ long with 5’ beam), and we will be travelling from the USA to Squamish entirely by human power. We, along with each each member of the team, will create a paddle from yellow cedar in the traditional Salish form to use for the journey. We’ll be creating an online blogumentary for each of these journeys that will be posted on our website.
Speaking of human power, my book Rowboat in a Hurricane has just been released in the USA. I’ll be doing a few presentations in the US to promote the book, starting this weekend in Bellingham (Village Books, March 8th, 4 PM, details). Additional presentations will be posted on our website as details become available. Also check our website in the upcoming weeks for details on several Canadian events we're doing this spring and our Rowed Trip tour in the fall.
We’re not featuring any adventurers this month as the deadline for our book has already been extended and our editor wouldn’t approve of us doing any extraneous non-book writing. We do hope he’s not on our subscription list (if you are, Tim, we’re planning on using this letter in our epilogue).
- Julie
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