Two teenagers head out on a summer cruise with 'Expectation of the Unexpected'

Not a NY Yacht Club raft-up

Navigating the Panama Canal from east to west (Caribbean to Pacific) you exit the Canal further east than where you entered.

'Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration'

Welcome to America

Calusa Man in his glory

Weary worn tired old mountains

Racing the Weather

Andy is visible in the aft 'cabin' hunched over his instruments

When the US Navy comes calling

A6 was Awesome 6, the last adventure for kids (16-17) who had been returning to our summer youth program, Awesome Adventures, for years, Our 'sleepaway' expeditions began with Awesome 1 (A1), a weeklong program of canoeing , caving and high ropes in the Adirondacks, then progressed each summer culminating with A6

The treacherous betrayal after an agreed upon truce with the loss of ships, crew, and his brothers left Francis Drake with no kindly intentions towards the Spanish

A well-deserved moment of ease for the Mate

Newbies

Could the Revolution have been won without Benedict Arnold?

The Queen's Jewels

The last Queen of France

At the tip of the Florida Keys, one of America's least visited National Parks, 70 miles beyond the last road in Key West

Taking the Lumps, Replying in Song

"A most consequential decade in our history. When people believed they could make a difference, when they grew up thinking about the Peace Corps, when they joined the Freedom Riders, when they did sit-ins. when they were marching. When they believed America could be changed through collective action. When you feel you can make a difference, you are authentically alive," Doris Kearns Goodwin

When the first line is the Hook

Visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington

not Miss Piggy's diet, for heaven's sake

How did the Jamestown settlers of 1607 find America and how did they fare

As the Verrazzano Bridge emerges from the fog on approach to New York City, we remember a figure often overshadowed in history.

Hitler was seldom denied

Pirates, Cutthroats and Whores

A lost era of the American West when life was elemental, tragic and quietly heroic

One of history's wittiest exchanges between a king and his consort. Short, sharp, and delightfully naughty

A canoe trip through Florida's Everglades with a group of Japanese students takes a dramatic turn when two boys quietly paddle off into the wilderness.

An irresistible invitation to join Capt. Cork and his wife Sue aboard their high-performance catamaran Surprise for a sailing charter

The dinosaur who ate rocks

Standing aboard the USS Alabama — a WWII battleship whose 16-inch guns fired shells the height of a man — Capt. Cork traces the evolution of naval warfare from iron-hulled Civil War gunboats on the Mississippi

Outnumbered and facing Napoleon's combined fleet off Cape Trafalgar, Britain's Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson threw out the naval rulebook

Last boat off

Standing in the ancient canyon country of western Colorado, where rivers have been cutting through stone for 100 million years, Capt. Cork reflects on the vanishingly brief moment that humans occupy on Earth's timeline.

Sailing into Miami Harbor under a midnight sky, Capt. Cork is greeted by the blazing skyline of one of the world's great cities.

A geology lesson told with wonder: the Rocky Mountains' dramatic terrain is the result of tectonic plates colliding, volcanoes erupting, and millions of years of uplift and erosion working in concert. In Colorado's volcanic San Juan Mountains.

When our future was so in doubt.

A solitary granite boulder sits alongside the Colorado River in Glenwood Canyon — ignored by passing hikers, unmarked, but quietly extraordinary.

The Longbowman, a Tudor legend., who left a permanent mark on history — and on the archer himself