SAHARA DUST - 1980s Windsurfing Antigua Memoir
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“A diseased girl, a drunk, a crazy woman, and a fool set sail.”
— Thea Ramsey, from her notebook (1982)
Thumb Out, Volume One of The Spaces Between, told the story of a 72-day hitchhiking odyssey across America in the summer of 1973 — and the years on either side of it. Coming apart before the road. The lost decade in California after. House painting in Pound Ridge once I gave up on Hollywood and came home. The book ended in the summer of 1980, with my sister ZaZa telling me about a woman named Thea Ramsey who had just walked into the dress shop where she worked.
Sahara Dust picks up where Thumb Out left off.
I’m writing it live, one chapter at a time, right here on this page. The voice is mine at 74 — looking back at a life I built and lost on a Caribbean beach, telling it the way you’d tell it to a friend over drinks. Sometimes the memory takes over and you’re right there in the trade winds. Sometimes you pull back and see the whole thing for what it was. As each chapter is completed, it will appear below as a link. Subscribe now and you get to watch the book get written in real time.
Table of Contents
Chapters titles will appear below as they are published
PART ONE
EMOTIONAL RESCUE
“I will be your knight in shining armor…”
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PART TWO
CASTLES MADE OF SAND
“Fall in the sea eventually…”
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PART THREE
EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD
“Nothing ever lasts…”
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PART FOUR
OUT OF AN ORANGE COLORED SKY
“Flash, a-bam, alakazam and goodbye…”
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The book begins with a man who has nowhere to go and ends with a man who has nowhere to go. The difference is everything that happened in between. That's why this trilogy is titled — The Spaces Between.