kieran_mulvaney http://members.greenpeace.org//blog/kieran_mulvaney This is a Greenpeace member blog en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Rambling Reflections at the End of a Long Journey kieran_mulvaney http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/kieran_mulvaney/2007/09/02/lengthy_rambling_reflections_at_the_end Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:08:12 +0000 Main 4831@http://members.greenpeace.org/gpblog It has been, as two reasonably famous songwriters once put it, a long and winding road, one that has lasted, on and off, for more than eighteen years now. And, theoretically, once we drop anchor in Dutch Harbor on Monday morning, it is a journey that - apart from a couple of days of post-expedition wrap-up and video editing - will come to an end. Except that I have said as much many times before. It isn't even the first time I've said it this year.[...] Read more! It has been, as two reasonably famous songwriters once put it, a long and winding road, one that has lasted, on and off, for more than eighteen years now. And, theoretically, once we drop anchor in Dutch Harbor on Monday morning, it is a journey that—apart from a couple of days of post-expedition wrap-up and video editing—will come to an end.

Except that I have said as much many times before. It isn't even the first time I've said it this year.

=> Read more...]]> http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/kieran_mulvaney?p=4831&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#comments Not Exactly The End kieran_mulvaney http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/kieran_mulvaney/2007/08/31/title_686 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:46:18 +0000 Main 4820@http://members.greenpeace.org/gpblog I looked out of my porthole this morning and found myself channeling Martin Sheen. "Adak. S***. I'm still in Adak." Then I stripped down to my underwear, drank too much whisky, and cut my hand on the mirror while practicising kung fu.[...] Read more! I looked out of my porthole this morning and found myself channeling Martin Sheen.

"Adak. S***. I'm still in Adak."

Then I stripped down to my underwear, drank too much whisky, and cut my hand on the mirror while practicising kung fu.

=> Read more...]]> http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/kieran_mulvaney?p=4820&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#comments Amchitka, anew. kieran_mulvaney http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/kieran_mulvaney/2007/08/30/amchitka_anew Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:50:10 +0000 Main 4817@http://members.greenpeace.org/gpblog Of all the places I never imagined I would visit twice ... We are about an hour away from returning to Adak. Few places have had as much an impact on everyone on board as this remote outpost, and whereas initial reaction to the apparent ghost town was disbelief and discomfort, the crew genuinely warmed to the community and the hospitality it showed us. For a few hours this evening, we will have an opportunity to experience it again.[...] Read more! Of all the places I never imagined I would visit twice ...

We are about an hour away from returning to Adak. Few places have had as much an impact on everyone on board as this remote outpost, and whereas initial reaction to the apparent ghost town was disbelief and discomfort, the crew genuinely warmed to the community and the hospitality it showed us. For a few hours this evening, we will have an opportunity to experience it again.

=> Read more...]]> http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/kieran_mulvaney?p=4817&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#comments Amchitka kieran_mulvaney http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/kieran_mulvaney/2007/08/29/amchitka Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:33:41 +0000 Main 4797@http://members.greenpeace.org/gpblog Thirty-five years, eleven months, and eighteen days later, we finally made it. On September 15, 1971, a crew of twelve set out from Vancouver Island in an eighty-foot halibut seiner called the Phyllis Cormack on a daring, even foolhardy, mission: to steam to the Aleutian island of Amchitka and protest, or even prevent, the detonation of an underground nuclear test. When the plan was first hatched, the group that organized the mission went by the name of the Don't Make a Wave Comittee. By the time the Cormack set out to sea, they were calling themselves Greenpeace.[...] Read more! Thirty-five years, eleven months, and eighteen days later, we finally made it.

On September 15, 1971, a crew of twelve set out from Vancouver Island in an eighty-foot halibut seiner called the Phyllis Cormack on a daring, even foolhardy, mission: to steam to the Aleutian island of Amchitka and protest, or even prevent, the detonation of an underground nuclear test. When the plan was first hatched, the group that organized the mission went by the name of the Don't Make a Wave Comittee. By the time the Cormack set out to sea, they were calling themselves Greenpeace.

=> Read more...]]> http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/kieran_mulvaney?p=4797&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#comments Adak kieran_mulvaney http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/kieran_mulvaney/2007/08/27/adak Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:46:44 +0000 Main 4780@http://members.greenpeace.org/gpblog So this is what the edge of the world feels like. Adak is the most westerly town in the United States. It is 1,300 miles southwest of Anchorage and 350 miles west of Dutch Harbor, the final redoubt before the Aleutians devolve into a broken necklace of isolated volcanic pearls. And it is empty. Or so, at least, it seems.[...] Read more! So this is what the edge of the world feels like.

Adak is the most westerly town in the United States. It is 1,300 miles southwest of Anchorage and 350 miles west of Dutch Harbor, the final redoubt before the Aleutians devolve into a broken necklace of isolated volcanic pearls.

And it is empty. Or so, at least, it seems.

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