.kimbrownseely tells us about being a woman adventure writer, becoming an empty nester, and sailing into the unknown.
I’ve only been sailing a handful of times in my life, and only once have I taken the helm. It was a long time ago when I was deliriously in love with the man I had just married and, on a whim, we signed ourselves up for a learn-to-sail adventure on the edge of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
Your journey centers around a quest to see a Spirit Bear. How’d you go from a mom driving school and lacrosse carpool to sailing into dangerous waters in search of a bear? Oh my God, YES! Our boat is a lot of boat, a ridiculous amount of boat for two people with no prior sailing experience together to learn how to sail. I don’t know what we were thinking. I just had confidence that we’d somehow figure it out. But that led to a lot of tension since my husband had sailed quite a bit before we met, but I hadn’t. So it was a radically uneven playing field that first year.
How did the great—mostly male—adventure writers you reference influence you as an adventurer and as a writer? I’m thinking of Jonathan Raban and his Passage to Juneauand Peter Matthiessen with The Snow Leopard,but also M. Wylie Blanchett and her book, The Curve of Time.
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