Getting Lost is an Adventure. Let’s Go.

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The Ooh La La of Yachts
Boat porn. That’s what I’ve spent the past few days looking at, surfing the photos at sailboatlistings.com and yachtworld.com and daydreaming about a 40 foot Island Packet with bow thrusters. Or maybe a 40 foot catamaran. Or heck, why not make it a 54 foot Hylas, as long as I’m only dreaming? Dreaming, like boat porn,…
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It’s Friday. Let’s Go. (Detour #23)
We’d climbed into snow while crossing Raton Pass and crawled down through a growing fury of sharp, hard-blown sleet. Maybe it was the elevation, we thought, and so we made the turn onto New Mexico’s Hwy 64 and headed into the no-man’s land of two lane highway linking Raton to Clayton, Dalhart, and ultimately on…
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Assassins and Victims: The Senate Torture Report (Detour #22)
In October 2002, six weeks after the 9/11 attacks, suspected militant Gul Rahman was captured in Pakistan and taken to an abandoned factory in Afghanistan for questioning by the CIA. COBALT, last week’s Senate report called the place; at the time it was known as the Salt Pit. Rahman had been seized in the company…