Virtual OBX Tour: Top 5 Ways to Experience the Outer Banks from Home

As summer drew to an end, Kim and I hastily readied ourselves for an Autumn trip. We’d been toying with a few ideas, but the Wrangells were calling and a long bike/raft traverse in the mountains was what we desired. We loaded our truck with bikes, rafts, camping gear and food and began the long drive east from our south central Alaska home. The Wrangells are a range of massive, heavily glaciated, volcanoes in eastern, interior Alaska. They are both where I was raised and where I lived as a y

I cower behind my bike, hoping it will shield me from a flustered flock of sheep launching off the steep mountainside above. Whoosh. Thump. Over the track and my head they jump, hurtling towards the creek below. My mind flashes forward to home – and to the distinct possibility of my husband answering the door to the police. ‘We’re sorry to inform you that your wife has been killed by a flock of freaked-out sheep.’ Marauding sheep are, however, the least of our worries. Our group has a far mo

In March this year, five amateur rowers set two world records after becoming the first team to row unsupported from mainland Europe to mainland South America. Oliver Bailey recounts their final day, navigating through Venezuelan waters renowned for drug trafficking and piracy. The final 24 hours of our record-setting trans-Atlantic row were the most memorable. For the first time in 50 days I could differentiate tones other than the blue-grey hues of the sky and the ocean. When I exited the