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Bar Harbor or bust — the voyage of Heron, Part III
This is the final part of a three-part series chronicling the journey by Bogart Salzberg from Portland to Mount Desert Island, a challenge inspired by is diagnosis with terminal brain cancer. “High winds and seas today, worse tomorrow.” I heard the weather report, but I wasn’t listening. My mind was made up. I was setting
From sail to paddle, conquering the Midcoast
Editor’s note: This is the second part of a three-part series in which Bogart Salzberg of Portland chronicles a windsurfing journey from Portland to Bar Harbor after being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Whether I was trespassing or not I still don’t know. The tiny Casco Bay islet where I camped, that first night of
The Voyage of the Heron: A Portland man’s ‘trip of a lifetime’ took on literal meaning
Try talking to a glass of water. Crazy, right? Then how is it that the sea seems to speak to me? I know it’s no more angry in storm than calm, that indeed it bears no emotion, and yet I wouldn’t be human if I didn’t see some meaning in its many faces. After being