Detours: Audrey Sutherland

Accounts of other travels

Audrey Sutherland was a solo traveler who paddled her inflatable kayak along the coast of Molokai and through the inside passage between Washington and Alaska. Her book, Paddling North, is the story of some of these adventures.

I didn’t need to get “away.” I needed to get “to.” To simplicity. I wanted to be lean and hard and sunbrowned and kind. Instead…