Homelands: Kayaking the Inside Passage

"For five months in the spring and summer of 1996, Maren and I traveled the Inside Passage It was a long and beautiful journey, a season of bright sun and dark cloud, above-average rainfall, and broad shoulders It was a time before home ownership, before children, an open window and all we had to do was leap through. And we did The very name, Inside Passage, seemed to carry an intimacy, a knowing. It would be a personal voyage. As much as anything, it would be a journey home."

"For five months in the spring and summer of 1996, Maren and I traveled the Inside Passage It was a long and beautiful journey, a season of bright sun and dark cloud, above-average rainfall, and broad shoulders It was a time before home ownership, before children, an open window and all we had to do was leap through. And we did The very name, Inside Passage, seemed to carry an intimacy, a knowing. It would be a personal voyage. As much as anything, it would be a journey home."

Author Biography: Byron Ricks is a native of the Midwest and a graduate of Grinnell College in Iowa. An outdoor leader, he has written for Outside magazine, Men's Journal and other publications. He lives with his wife, Maren Van Nostrand, an outdoor educator and environmental planner, near Seattle, Washington.