Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Just as the guide began leading us back, we heard people screaming from afar in the direction of our group. “What the hell are you people doing?!”
Torre DeRoche is the author of two travel memoirs, Love with a Chance of Drowning (2013) and The Worrier’s Guide to the End of the World (due out September 2017). She has written for The Atlantic, The Guardian Travel, The Sydney Morning Herald, Emirates, and two Lonely Planet anthologies.
Just as the guide began leading us back, we heard people screaming from afar in the direction of our group. “What the hell are you people doing?!”
It’s a black night and the wind is vile. The waves must be twenty feet high. We’re tipping, staggering, flying down each angry wave and my stomach keeps bottoming out like we’re in a plummeting elevator. Our little boat, Amazing Grace, isn’t so amazing right now …
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