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It’s late August, and the founders of Reflect Orbital are giving me a tour of their new headquarters in Hawthorne, California in advance of their first satellite launch.
After four years of trial-and-error, they are waiting for their number to come up on a Falcon 9 rideshare in order to test their audacious thesis: that they can make money by selling sunlight to parts of the world that don’t have enough it or, at the very least, don’t have it when they need it.
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05 Oct 2026
My kind of centerfold! In the latest issue of @natgeo, I write about @drsteveboyes quest to map the “water towers” feeding the Okavango Delta. I didn’t get to join him on any of his monthslong expeditions, but I don’t have any regrets after seeing how much gear his team hauls in their mokoros.
07 May 2026
Mark Dixon may have been a footnote in Boston’s story. For him, it was the moment when everything seemed possible. #classicrock #bostonband #rockman
14 Jan 2026
Over ten days in late May and early June, @tom_fowlks and I had the kayak trip of a lifetime. We took advantage of California’s extraordinary winter and rode the snowmelt more than 200 miles through the heart of the San Joaquin Valley from the ghostly shore of Tulare Lake to the delta region of the San Francisco Bay. Some of it was ugly; much of it was challenging. We portaged low bridges and high dams, navigated barbed wire and electric fences, and sunk into sucking mud. We slept in Tule swamps and on islands of dry ground, where we could find it. We heard the rumble of industrial agriculture in the distance, but we saw more river otters than human faces on many stretches. I’ll always remember rounding those flooded oxbows, gliding under ancient oaks and cottonwoods, their upper branches heavy with the nests of waterbirds, and wishing for the trip to never end.
The @sfchronicle has just published a piece about our adventure, which I've linked to in my bio, and I’ll be writing the full story in an upcoming issue of @outsidemagazine. Thanks very much to @hobiefishing and @pure_watersports1 in Dana Point for loaning us the pedal kayaks, and @nrsweb for the dry bags and safety gear. I'm also grateful to Bill Cooper and John Sweetser of Bakersfield, who completed a similar trip exactly forty years earlier, and provided us with advice along the way.
#tularelake #sanjoaquin #fresno #tulare #kings #kern #modesto #stockton #bakersfield #hobie #kayak #kayakfishing
10 Jun 2023
Our backyard superbloom has arrived!
Sixteen months ago, this was a weed-covered pile of dirt, and now it's pollinator paradise. Seventy-plus California native plant species, dueling hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees, loads of fence lizards, and at least one slender salamander.
Scroll to the last pic for the before times.
28 Apr 2023
My first book THE FIRST SHOTS came out this week. As I wait with bated breath for the first newspaper reviews I keep rereading the epigraph, a quote from Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “Man in the Arena” speech, which I saw on the wall of a key scientist’s office at the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institutes of Health. “It is not the critic that counts . . . “
30 Oct 2021
10 miles to go. The light is fading. I stop to take in the view. I love this place.
27 Nov 2017
The clouds are at last swept away, and I'm treated to a view of the #Kalalau Valley. Hard at work for @hakaimag
29 Jul 2017
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10 Jul 2017
Yellow Lady's Slipper
04 May 2017
#UCSB mountain bike club, 20 years later
15 Apr 2017
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30 Mar 2017
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