Greetings.

The multimedia web site chronicling Rob Pike's rediscovery of North America is being built. We are working on it, in the background, right now in 2006.

Rob Pike's American Passages Project took place over seven years of summers. With over 500 pages of Rob's writing, the journals of the original Northern European explorers, indigenous music from Newfoundland to the West Coast, and over 3000 photographs to work with, creating a state of the art, web based, multimedia experience is taking some time. More time than we ever dreamed. Seriously.

The essence of the adventure is as follows. Rob put a career in public service, law and education on hold to follow in the footsteps of the original Northern European explorers of North America; Cabot, Cartier, Champlain, LaSalle, and Lewis and Clark, aboard his 34' cabin cruiser, the Escrow (pictured above in Seal Cove, Newfoundland.) The Lewis and Clark expedition route was accomplished aboard a 23' power boat, the Zebulon, pictured below, and his trusty Cannondale bicycle for 830+ miles of bicycling over the Rocky Mountain's Continental Divide. Rob then completed the journey by navigating the Zeb down the Snake and Columbia Rivers to the Pacific Ocean.

Along the way, Rob collected stories, photographs, and indigenous music, along with the experience and adventure of a lifetime.. He made a pile of friends, darn near got killed twice, and the day after he crossed the Continental Divide, ran into the reknowned writer, William Least Heat Moon, in whose book, "River Horse," Rob appears four times.

He received two consistent reactions from the people he met along the way, "Mr. Pike, you have lost your mind!" and "Can I go along?"

This website is being built for all of those crazy enough to have wanted to go along.

We will have the site in presentable form this year and will publicize our go live date, when it is done. Or at least tolerable..

If you'd like to be notified of progress on American Passages, and the release of the American Passages web site, please sign up for our mailing list. Just click on the email link below, and say "subscribe."

Thanks.

 

Rob and the Site Development Crew

rpike@pikus.com

The American Passages Project

An Inward Journey across North America

138 Ostrander Ave.

Riverhead NY

631 727 7204