Who wants to sail or paddle down the Rio Grande?

In April, we quoted Pam writing about the dinghy under the bed, when she was dreaming of taking off to sea again and leaving the South Dakota winter behind.

At the end of April, we finally got the old dinghy out on the Rio Grande.  Getting it from the back of the car and carrying it to the water and out again was the hard part. Our trip was rather short at about 45 minutes from launch to take-out, but we did it!  Paddling down the Rio Grande, we’d never know we were in the midst of a city of over 500,000.  It was a little taste of life on the water. Then we went to San Francisco where waves rolled in from the Pacific.  I made a short video, hoping whet (wet?) your interest.

See our latest video: The Endless Lure of the Sea

A lovely response to We Ran Away to Sea

We’ve recently had some lovely responses to We Ran Away to Sea. Geoff Boerne, the captain of Lo Entropy, a boat Kent and Pam encountered in Mexico in the 1990s, last week finally received the copy of the book we’d sent him at the end of February. Apparently it takes a long time to get a book to Denmark! He tells us he started reading on Friday evening and finished the book on Saturday afternoon, sad to have it come to an end. He also saw the book as not just a sailing book, but a love story, which I, too, think it is.  He had much more to say, and, of course, identified with all the sailing bits.  Thank you, Geoff!

There is more about Geoff and his current endeavors in today’s blog post. Check out what he and Peter Roberts are doing to help save our planet, by clicking the following link on my Caminobleu blog:

Can We Save Our Planet?

June-July Events – Mark Your Calendars!

Kent will be giving a book talk: Saturday, June 29 from 1-2 p.m at the Juan Tabo branch of the Albuquerque Public Library.

He will also be selling and signing books with a few other authors on Saturday, July 6 at the lovely Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, from 10-12 am. We hope to see some of our Santa Fe friends!

Three copies of the book are now available at the Albuquerque Public Library, and there is a waiting list! The call number is 813.54 KEDL. Please request more copies!

We Still Need More Reviews

Check out the new reviews on Amazon and on our webpage:  Follow Kent’s author page by clicking on follow on Amazon.  We need more reviews!  Good Reads is another place to put reviews. Can you help us get up to 50? We’re almost there! See the help on posting reviews a bit farther down the page.

There was a sudden spike in book sales in early June for three days in a row. That was a welcome mystery, and we hope it keeps up.

I also added some new content to the book page on Amazon. But, oops! Only part of the content appears on the paperback page. It’s all there on the Kindle page, so look there for now, and I’ll try to fix it tomorrow.

Send us a picture of you reading the book

Please send us your picture of you or someone reading the book or seeing the book in interesting places.

Esther Jantzen, author of Walk: Jamie Bacon’s Secret MIssion on the Camino de Santiago, and founder of Elder Activist Readers, enjoying We Ran Away to Sea.

Return from Indonesia

We took a break from book stuff for three weeks in May and enjoyed a fascinating impromptu trip to Indonesia. We were so captivated by our experiences that we totally forgot to take pictures with the book in the many intriguing and scenic places we visited. Alas! But here we are, without the book!

Linnea and Kent riding high in the sky in Bali, Indonesia