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Santa Rosa or bust
2012 (bring it)
54.6 miles later...
A beautiful road
A different trip
A Great Day
A Little Comfort On The Amazon River
A Much Needed Break
A National Geographic Expedition
A new beginning...not!
A new day, a new challenge
A new drink is born...
A new support team
A Reception Is Now On The Schedule
A Saturday made for Paddling
A whopping day today...
Afternoon update
Almost like home
Amazon Express gets the support of the Peruvian Minister of Tourism
Amazon Express Swiss Army Knife
...and Launch-off!
And now a word from our sponsors
And so it begins…
And the answer is...
And Yet Another Milestone Has Been Completed!
Another good day
Another mid-day update
Another milestone coming up
Another Milestone Completed
Arriving in Pucallpa
Atayala and beyond
Aug 19, 2012
August 20, 2012
Back in Texas
Back in Tupperware After 20 Years
Back on the river
BAP Stiglich
Beautiful Bluffs
Belem or bust!
BIGGEST DAY YET!
Biggest day yet!
Blessing of the Nuns
Blowing Out the Cobwebs
Brasil! Another milestone
Brazilian Visas! Wahoo!
'BUY A MILE' going fast!
buzz...mosquitos...buzz
Calm before the excitement
Camping in Colombia
Can't make it too easy
Ceviche, Yum!
Christmas in Brasil
Clean Water, Messy Bureaucrats and Rafa's Lightning Yellow Villain S
Coffee, please.
Cold, Cold, Cold
Confluence of the Rios Negro and Solimones
Contamana
Countdown to Belem
Davey Du Plessis Update
Day 16 update
Day One: Conditioning
Deep-ish South
Demon River: Apurimac
Documentary On Sale Now!
Documentary Premiere Poster
Documentary Trailer
Documentary Update
Driving in Arequipa 101
Driving to the Andes
Early morning update
Early upate August 22, 2012
Early update Aug 23, 2012
Early update Aug 24, 2012--2
Early update Aug 24, 2012
Early update August 30, 2012
Early update Sept 1, 2012
Early Update Sept 2, 2012
Epic Wing Paddle Raffle
Erich Schlegel Joins The Team
Exhausting day
Expedition Pamphlet
Expedition Presentations Scheduled
Fellow Amazon Explorer in the Workplace
Final Section of the US leg of the Expedition
Final Team Together
Finally, water!
First Day Back Home
First, we take Manaus, then we take Belem (apologies to Leonard Cohen)
Friday Night Football...oops, I mean update!
Full Steam Ahead
Fun and Excitement You Can Have with a Laser Beam and Two Eyeballs
Cavalry has arrived!
FYI:
Getting The Hell Out of Dodge
GO!
Good Time
Gracious Hosts
Great day on the San Marcos River
Great progress
Guests of Electroperu S.A.
Gurupa bound
Here's just a sneak-peek
Homeward Bound
How to Plan an Expedition
Huancayo
Huck Finning The Amazon
Interesting day
Interesting night, to say the least
Iquitos: 1806 miles and still going strong
Iquitos-bound
Is there a doctor in the house?...
Is today the day?
It's getting harder...
Jackson Kayak Factory Visit - Sparta, Tennessee, U.S. of Freakin' A.
Jungle Outpost--Galilea
Jungle Rot
Just a quick update, then bed
Just a quickie
Just One Step In Front of Another
Kayak The Amazon has begun
Kayak the Amazon
Keep the milestones coming, boys!
Last Day of Rest Before Final White Water Push
Last Morning in America
Late Day Update Aug 18, 2012
Late start, good day
Late Update 9-14-12
Late Update Aug 24, 2012
Late update Aug 25, 2012
Late update August 19, 2012
Late update August 21, 2012
Late Update August 28, 2012
Late update August 29, 2012
Late update August 30, 2012
Latest Book Recommendations
Lima, Day Dos (kind of)
Lima: Day Uno
Manaus tomorrow!
Pictures Sept 1, 2012/Late update
Mid-day update Sept. 1,2012
Midday August 28, 2012
Midday Update Sept 3, 2012
Milestones and Manaus
Moon over muddy waters
More from yesterday
More guns, different scenario
More help from friendly people
More Pictures in Ayacucho
More Videos
Mundi!
Nail-biter, for sure
New Eyes
NeWorld Deli in Austin, Texas
News Clip
Next stop, Mosqueiro Island
Night time paddling
No one could script a day like this...
No really...now a quick update
Now, a new beginning
Ocean giants = enjoyable waves!
Officially started at...
OK...Back to Blogging
Ok, Stop Waiting...
Okay, time to hit the weights
On the road, uh er River again...
One more day...
Operation Re-Supply
Orellana--CHECK!
Oxbow
PayPal is up and running!
Peeled Faces On The Amazon Documentary
Peru, Part Quatro
Peru, Part Tres
Picture Day
Pictures!
Pictures from Contamana
Pictures
Popeye's and Corona
Presentations Update
Pringles and Grape Soda, Yippee!
Proper Care and Feeding of a Tilley Hat
Pucallpa in sight
Pucallpa
Puerto Prado to Poyeni
Pumping Iron with Dave Goodin!
Re-visiting the source
Ready, Set...
Recent Acobamba Abyss Trip Report
REI Gift Registry
Remembering Juanito Antonio de Ugarte
Remodeled Living Room
Review: Crossing The Ditch
Rocky's report of the new source is finally published
Rolling on the river
Row row row your boat
Run out of camp
Running The Amazon
San Pablo, Peru
Sand Socks
Scouting the River
Second Update
Serendipity
Signing off
Slow water makes for tired paddlers
So, it's been four months...
Solid White Water Team
Some Class V and V+ White Water and Some Rest
South American Explorer's Club - Cusco
State Of Wonder
Stop Forrest!
Strangers To Civilization
SUCCESS!! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!
Surfs Up!
Take a step in his shoes...er, uh, feet??
Tarma, Peru
Team Meeting, BGAN and Sat Phones (con beer y pizza)
Texas Winter 100K Canoe Race
Thanks, Joseph!
Thanksgiving in Brasil
The 50th Annual 260 Mile Texas Water Safari
The Amazon Express Fundraiser Gala
The Banff Mountain Film Fest and My First Half-Century
The Cloud Forest, Dizzying Heights and Good Water
The end of the road...
The Final Team
The Good Days
The Hotel Farol and Some Video
The Mile of the Beast
The number is...
The swimming sloth
The Team Has Arrived!
The Team
The US National Whitewater Center
They see the light (house)
Thorfinn Expeditions
To stop would mean going back(wards)
Total mileage thus far...
Training with Lance Hooton
Update August 31, 2012
Update on the hike/drag/pull
Video of a canyon run on the upper Amazon River
Video of white water launch...
Villains and Juan De Ugarte
Visit to DC, National Geographic, Great Falls and Piotr Chmielinski's home
Wait for it...
Waves and more waves
Welcome 5.10 Shoes As Our Newest Sponsor!
Well...it happened
We're all in this together
What a Day!
Whew...Whitewater Heaven!
Whew!
Whitewater is behind us...
World Premiere of the Documentary about the Expedition!
A Yahoo! Enthusiast
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