Philosophy
“Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.”
Image: Mount Superior, Utah. Final ascent before the descent. 2025.
“Every moment free from fear, makes a man immortal.”
Image: Block Island swim crossing from Montauk Point, 2024.
“The whale ship was my Yale college and my Harvard.”
Image: Tents pitched. France, 2023. Lisbon to the Black Sea Mental Health Tour.
“When the wind fails, take to the oars.”
Image: In the thick of the swim from Gardiners Island to Plumb Island, 2021.
“Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’”
Image: Appalachian Country. Northern U.S Bike Tour. Anacortes, WA to Sag Harbor, NY.
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
Image: Great Peconic Bay Crossing, 2020.
“You’ve got to line them up to knock them down.”
Image: Arizona, 2018. United States bike tour. San Diego, CA to Sag Harbor, NY.
“Do less.”
Image: Mike Semkus at Sagg Main in the days of yesteryear.

