Restless Viking Radio

The storm passed in the night. By morning, the lake was where the street should be. Some things don't get safer once you understand them. They just get more interesting.

Seven miles of open Lake Michigan. A ranger who wasn't sure what to do with a float plan. And a lake that doesn't care whether you made it or not. Restless Viking Radio.

Behind an unmarked wooden door on a cobblestone street in Sardinia, there is a winery that doesn't sell its wine. Poppins was not prepared for this. Culture isn't something you learn. It's something you stumble into.

Bahalla is a former junkyard dismantling shop on three acres that mostly runs itself. Mostly. On a cold Saturday morning, my heater screams and the computer gets judgmental. Then the cat sabotages the electronics bench...

Season 1, Episode 10. Season finale. This final episode closes the road stories of Season One and turns inward. Before there were long drives north, cold coastlines, and strangers holding doors open, there was a dorm...

Season 1, Episode 9 A Thanksgiving escape turns into a long winter push across Quebec and Labrador — bad coffee, hard cold, ferries, snow, and the unexpected kindness of strangers. This is a field-tape episode about...

Restless Viking Radio — Season One, Episode Eight Part 5 of the Cape Jones Saga We’re camped on the rocks at Longue Pointe with ten people, freighter canoes below us, and a simple problem: we need two boats, and we have...

Chisasibi doesn’t welcome visitors loudly. It watches first. In this episode, a single encounter inside a tired northern commercial center quietly determines whether the journey to Cape Jones will happen at all. A man...

Mamoweedow Restless Viking Radio — Season One, Episode Six The Cape Jones Series — Part Three Before we ever reached Cape Jones, we crossed to Fort George Island for Mamoweedow — a gathering where the Cree return each...

Northbound / Longue Pointe Restless Viking Radio – Season 1, Episode 5 Cape Jones Series - Part 2 The morning after the fire at Chisasibi, we packed up camp and drove farther north — toward Longue Pointe, one of the...

Restless Viking Radio The James Bay Road isn’t just long — it’s alone. In this episode, Chuck begins a northern run toward James Bay, driving thirteen hundred miles into a landscape shaped by hydro dams, silence, and...

Some Search and Rescue calls are all logistics—maps, radios, boots in the mud. And then there are the ones that stay with you. In this episode, Chuck recounts a quiet rescue that began as a routine missing-person call...

In Episode 2, I face one of travel’s great equalizers: doing laundry in a foreign country. What starts as a simple chore turns into a comedy of confusion, humility, and one very opinionated pair of socks. If you’ve ever...

In Season 1, Episode 1 of Restless Viking Radio, I walk into an REI looking for a pair of boots… and walk out with a lesson I didn’t know I needed. What starts as a simple shopping trip turns into a conversation about...

Most of our adventures start too early, too far, and with a plan that collapses faster than a cheap tent on the Labrador coast. This is Restless Viking Radio — stories from the road, the workshop, and the edges of maps...