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They were young. They were dumb. They performed magic.

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It’s like a riddle:

Two guys set off together on a 3,500-mile round trip, and returned with five vehicles.

How did they do it?

For the answer, you’ll have to hear “We’d Be Crazy Not To,” which is Episode Two of the great new podcast, “True Road Trip Tales.”

In a story we’ve told 100 times in bars but never in public, my best pal Tom Gillespie and I headed west on a mission that was harebrained in concept, and became more ill-advised in the execution—(there was a single-engine airplane involved)—right up until the moment it all worked out perfectly.

Listen here.

(And if you dig the story, give the new podcast a happy review.)

“Sheer Exhaustion,” Lake Magazine

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The Sail La Vie was heeled over so far to port that I was standing upright on the side of the boat, grasping the big steering wheel as much to stay aboard the thrusting 31-footer as to hold it, with most of my might, at due north. It was a few minutes after midnight on Tuesday, July 22, the third night of the Race to Mackinac. • It was also the 100th running of the race – my first time in any sailing race, and only my second stint on a sailing crew of any kind. • As the rain began to pelt down, and the wind, unbelievably, continued to increase, death didn’t cross my mind, but only because death was an answer, and I only had time for one question: “How did I get here?”

Click here for full article (and photos by the marvelous Bruce Bever).