The Shorts--The Swallow and the Anchor

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

"My future captain interviewed me with three questions," remembers Joe Aultman-Moore. "Had I ever sailed before? No. Did I get seasick? I don't know. And, could I leave tomorrow? Yes." As Joe learned to sail while hitchhiking a sailboat across the Atlantic Ocean, he also discovered the unexpected ways in which travel could explode his perceptions of normal. Check out "Going Into the Wild," another essay Joe wrote on hitchhiking--but this time thumbing cars, not boats, through Interior Alaska.

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0:00.0	This is the Shorts.
0:08.0	In your listening to the Jert-Bag Diaries, a duct tape and veer production, with additional
0:13.8	support from New Belgium Brewing, Kuat Racks and Patagonia.
0:30.0	It's about two in the morning.
0:37.0	I'm standing behind a bus.
0:40.0	We're pulled into a gas station for a minute.
0:44.0	I've got the beginnings of a cold, I think.
0:49.0	I'm heading down to Gibraltar.
0:53.0	So it should be there like six in the morning or something.
0:56.0	Almost seven.
0:59.0	I'm going to cross the border and then try and post up there for a while.
1:06.0	Camping as long as I can and trying to look for a boat crossing the Atlantic.
1:15.0	I have no idea how to sail.
1:18.0	I don't know anyone down in Gibraltar.
1:24.0	But I know people have done it and I know.
1:27.0	So I know it's possible.
1:30.0	Just going to try it.
1:54.0	I was sitting in a charlise, a dim bar near a marina in Gibraltar on the far southern tip
2:02.0	of Spain.
2:03.0	The air was filled with cigarette smoke, stale beer and that dead end feeling of late nights.
2:09.0	I was trying to hitchhike a sailboat across the Atlantic Ocean and it was not going well.
2:15.0	No one here knew me or cared.
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