Tag: Island
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A Whole New World
The waves made me sick. It was their way of mocking me for being a ‘hard’ geographer. I didn’t like water. I didn’t like vacations to the ocean. I could count on one hand the number of times that I had taken a dip in the hotel pool on the numerous conferences I had been…
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Day Drifting
Jon lay stretched on the beach, his shirt balled up behind his head like a pillow. His eyes were closed and he listened to the sound of the surf crashing against the shore. This is the life. Jon opened his eyes. No, this was not the life. This was an island, somewhere in the middle…