but somewhere on the lower amar we were
playing the pedal a thousand kilometers
somewhere along the way I started to get
a really sick feeling in my stomach and
I said I think we need to take off at
our halfway point and that halfway point
was sort of the last spot that we could
take out before it was like a no turning
around situation before we delve deeper
into the wilderness and the weather was
going to be getting more intense than
monsoon weather and our SAT phone wasn’t
working and all the translators that
were supposed to paddle with us had
bailed and there are all of these things
these logical reasons but no matter how
much I logic through it I really just
had this sick feeling in my gut and so
halfway through our objective on the
lower amor we took off in the city of
Qom Semel’s and we really weren’t sure
if we were making the right choice the
one thing about landing in that beach as
well we met this lady who happened to
speak perfect English and she said to us
you know why would you come to a place
that even God forgot and that’s probably
when there’s always stuck with me
because even though it mean comes mas
it’s a pretty big city but various
Russia you still very very much
disconnected from the world so we did
end up making it to the ocean though but
it ended up being much less romantic
than my image my image was like paddling
into the amor Delta on a beautiful clear
day wind in our hair and you know we
were just like total summit moment but
we ended up just taking a ferry we were
able to find a local ferry and it took
us a day to get downstream and then we
hitchhike the rest of the way and so we
hitchhike the rest of the way and we
ended up in this old fishing village
that was sort of falling in on itself
and we quickly realized we were the only
people that this place mattered to and
for us it meant something very different
than it did for everybody else it was
the end of this really long powerful
journey and and the end of a dream that
we had wanted to see through and this is
image of us leaving Russia we flew back
to Alaska
and you can see like it’s a big big
river and basically about a week later
we find out the greatest flood and 120
years actually hit the region when they
showed the before-and-after images what
we were paddling look like a creek on a
map and you know now this thing’s pretty
big because there’s no big mountains
really rounds quite flat it was like 50
kilometers wide and that’s a lot of
water to be moving around so thankfully
Amber’s intuition was on target so this
is a Karen we built for Zach over the
own on river and we found a lot of
little ways to celebrate him as we went
he was such a vibrant vibrant human
being and he was always laughing and
dancing and just in the flow of his life
and so I think if there’s anything that
I’ve learned in his life and in his
passing it’s that no matter how hard
what we face in our life is no matter
how crazy and difficult things get there
is always something for us to celebrate
and I think that’s what we really tried
to do in Mongolia and on this trip
you
you
playing the pedal a thousand kilometers
somewhere along the way I started to get
a really sick feeling in my stomach and
I said I think we need to take off at
our halfway point and that halfway point
was sort of the last spot that we could
take out before it was like a no turning
around situation before we delve deeper
into the wilderness and the weather was
going to be getting more intense than
monsoon weather and our SAT phone wasn’t
working and all the translators that
were supposed to paddle with us had
bailed and there are all of these things
these logical reasons but no matter how
much I logic through it I really just
had this sick feeling in my gut and so
halfway through our objective on the
lower amor we took off in the city of
Qom Semel’s and we really weren’t sure
if we were making the right choice the
one thing about landing in that beach as
well we met this lady who happened to
speak perfect English and she said to us
you know why would you come to a place
that even God forgot and that’s probably
when there’s always stuck with me
because even though it mean comes mas
it’s a pretty big city but various
Russia you still very very much
disconnected from the world so we did
end up making it to the ocean though but
it ended up being much less romantic
than my image my image was like paddling
into the amor Delta on a beautiful clear
day wind in our hair and you know we
were just like total summit moment but
we ended up just taking a ferry we were
able to find a local ferry and it took
us a day to get downstream and then we
hitchhike the rest of the way and so we
hitchhike the rest of the way and we
ended up in this old fishing village
that was sort of falling in on itself
and we quickly realized we were the only
people that this place mattered to and
for us it meant something very different
than it did for everybody else it was
the end of this really long powerful
journey and and the end of a dream that
we had wanted to see through and this is
image of us leaving Russia we flew back
to Alaska
and you can see like it’s a big big
river and basically about a week later
we find out the greatest flood and 120
years actually hit the region when they
showed the before-and-after images what
we were paddling look like a creek on a
map and you know now this thing’s pretty
big because there’s no big mountains
really rounds quite flat it was like 50
kilometers wide and that’s a lot of
water to be moving around so thankfully
Amber’s intuition was on target so this
is a Karen we built for Zach over the
own on river and we found a lot of
little ways to celebrate him as we went
he was such a vibrant vibrant human
being and he was always laughing and
dancing and just in the flow of his life
and so I think if there’s anything that
I’ve learned in his life and in his
passing it’s that no matter how hard
what we face in our life is no matter
how crazy and difficult things get there
is always something for us to celebrate
and I think that’s what we really tried
to do in Mongolia and on this trip
you
you
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