Okay it's only for one of the miles I sponsored, but it's still kinda cool
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Roz Savage
For those of you who have followed my postings know I am a fan of Roz Savage. Roz rowed the Atlantic solo in 2005. She rowed the Pacific in three parts, San Francisco to Hawaii 2008, Hawaii to Tarawa 2009, Tarawa to Papua New Guinea in 2010.
This week Roz starts out on third ocean, the Indian Ocean. She will be leaving from Freemantle Australia to Mumbai if the winds and tides are favorable, at the very least that is the direction she is heading.
This will be the most dangerous trip, not from the sea, or the elements but of all things - pirates! The waters around Indonesia have been pirate ridden for as long as man has been sailing. A blonde English women in a 23 foot row boat hopeful will go unnoticed. But as we all know the west end of the Indian Ocean has been no picnic either in recent years with pirates from Somalia ranging out almost 300 miles to sea to seize ships. I am hoping that maybe the worlds navy's will find a way to shadow her on the horizon lines through the dicey parts.
Roz would not like them any closer than the horizon line since once she is at sea she rows in the buff. She says it is just easier, no laundry to do, no chaffing. Need to clean up just jump in the ocean, then back on board for a quick fresh water sponge rinse.
Her fund raising for the leg of her voyage as not gone as planned but she is pushing forwarded anyway. Roz is looking for donations to support her while she is out at sea. In the past she has tweeted, facebook posted, podcasted, posted photos, called her mom, etc. during her voyage, all of which cost. She has set up a donations page so people can contribute per mile. Here is the link :
Eat-Pray-Row the Indian Ocean
I have purchase a few miles, the economy has been hard on everyone. But how many times in a life time can you follow a true adventurer. If you can, consider supporting Roz.
Here is Roz's website if you want to lean more about Roz: www.rozsavage.com
I have created a poll/survey to see where else fans of Roz Savage would have liked to seen Roz's book tour go.
The current tour (positive thinking that Simon & Schuster may expand it) is to these US cities.
Boston MA, Cambridge MA, New York, NY, Washington DC, Seattle WA, Portland OR, San Francisco CA and Los Angeles, CA.
Too few for my thinking, what do you think.
The Roz Savage Book Tour Question.
To be fair, I live in the Washington DC metro area and already plan to attend the events here.
But what about you....
I am a big fan of Roz Savage, just look back though my postings. Her book Rowing the Atlantic is out and Roz is going on tour starting October 6, 2009. She will be in DC on the 18th and 19th.
From Roz's web site:
Book signing in Washington DC
When: Sun, October 18, 2pm – 3pm
Where: The North Face store, 3333 M Street, NW
Description: Organized by National Geographic.
Presentation for National Geographic “Live @ NGS series”
When: Mon, October 19, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Where: 1145 17th Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036
Description: Roz will deliver a presentation for the prestigious National Geographic Live! series. Members: $15, / 3-part series $39 General Public: $18 /3- part series $45
I wanted and had planned to try to meet Roz earlier this week when she rode into DC for the Climate Ride (from NYC to DC) but I had a problem at my day job, our servers hard drive was having issues so I missed out.
The weekend of the 17th and 18th already have too may things scheduled, but I will fit this in. It would be great to hear Roz speak on Monday as well. I will keep you posted on updates.
Congratulations Roz!
At 2 PM Local Tarawa Roz Savage completed the second leg of her journey to row across the Pacific, 104 days at sea, 3158 miles, ~1,335,843 Oar Strokes. Roz left Hawaii back in May she has blogged, tweeted and has given live audio broadcast about her journey along the way. Her point to rowing the Pacific is to raise awareness about global warming.
Roz was the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic back in 2005. In the summer of 2008 she rowed from California to Hawaii. On May 24, 2009 she left Hawaii headed to Tuvalu as the second stage of her three part row across the Pacific. Once she crossed the equator, the currents and winds where making it too difficult to keep heading south, combined with a broken fresh water maker balanced against her remaining food supply, Roz along with her support team decided to head to Tarawa (her alternate destination)
It has been great to watch daily as Roz progressed across the ocean on her web site. Can't wait for next year and her final leg of her voyage. Once completed Roz will be the first woman to row across the Pacific solo. History in the making!
Roz Savage is in the finial stretch of her current ocean rowing voyage. Back on August 24 Roz crossed the equator heading for Tuvlau. After a couple of days of strong winds and strong currents both taking her away from where she wanted to go; as well as broken fresh water maker, Roz consulted with her support team and they determined the problems with elements, fresh water maker, while she could make Tuvlau, they where afraid it would take longer then expected, that her back up water supply would not last and she could run out of food.
Roz made the heart breaking to change direction and head west then back north to Tarawa, her alternate end point for this leg of here. When she crossed back over the equator she has 200 nautical miles left to go.
Her support team has been making arrangements for her arrival. The are making their way from around the world to meet her on Tarawa. Roz is expected to arrive September 8th. Should be very exciting.
I have been following Roz Savage on her current ocean rowing voyage. She is on the second leg of her Pacific crossing. Earlier this week Roz crossed the International Date Line. As she noted on her blog she was so far west, she is now east.
This morning, east coast time around 12:42 she crossed the equator! From her blog Roz marked crossing the Equator at 18:42:02 Hawaii Time, at longitude 179 12.359E. Roz marks her voyage time by Hawaiian time. A big milestone on this leg of the voyage. Roz is heading to Tuavlu the final point on this leg. Tuavlu is 500 miles south and east of where she crossed the equator.
In 2005 Roz was the first woman to complete a solo rowing across the Atlantic. In the summer of 2008 she rowed from California to Hawaii. On May 24, 2009 she left Hawaii headed to Tuvalu as the second stage of her three part row across the Pacific.
Roz is well connected as she row and has a great land based support crew. They have created the ROZ TRACKER, I have included a link to the tracker on the right side of the page. It shows her GPS location, her path through the ocean, as well as her Twitter feeds, Blogger post and when she has time You Tube post. Roz is also doing a weekly NetCast Roz rows the Pacific with Leo that is available from Leo's site or Itunes. This is an amazing amount of tech she has taken with her. It is all portable, it is all solar recharged, very cool stuff.
Roz has a platform for each segment she rows. She runs the whole adventure on donations. She is bringing awareness to global warming, pollution in the Pacific
I first became aware of Roz Savage when I was looking for Leo Laporte on the web ( I am big fan of Leo; yeah I know, I am such a GEEK). I found Leo's TWIT (This Week In Tech) site the day Roz Savage had completed her first leg of ROWING solo across the Pacific Ocean.
In 2005 Roz was the first woman to complete rowing across the Atlantic. In the summer of 2008 she rowed from California to Hawaii. On May 24, 2009 she left Hawaii headed to Tuvalu as the second stage of her three part row across the Pacific.
Roz is well connected as she row and has a great land based support crew. They have created the ROZ TRACKER, I have included a link to the tracker on the right side of the page. It shows her GPS location, her path through the ocean, as well as her Twitter feeds, Blogger post and when she has time You Tube post. Roz is also doing a weekly NetCast Roz rows the Pacific with Leo that is available from Leo's site or Itunes. This is an amazing amount of tech she has taken with her. It is all portable, it is all solar recharged, very cool stuff.
Roz has a platform for each segment she rows. She runs the whole adventure on donations. She is bringing awareness to global warming, pollution in the Pacific, as well as the United Nations Environment Program: World Environment Day, which is Friday, June 5th . If you follow UNEP on Twitter before June 5th, UNEP will plant a tree for each of their followers.
Roz also has extended a personal challenge through her PULL Together 09 website. Roz rows on average 10,000 strokes a day. She asked you join her by walking 10,000 steps a day. (I am trying but not doing so well) it is about 2 hours, about 6 miles, a way to either get fit and/or reduce your carbon foot print.
So keep tabs on Roz as she continues this amazing adventure through her site and her tracker.
Enjoy!