The Storm : We Thought We Were Going to Die.

A warning we couldn’t understand. A sail that snapped in half. A hull that began to crack beneath us, in the middle of open water, in the dark. This episode is about the night a storm nearly took our boat — the fear in my father’s face, the sound of my mother’s hands sealing the cracks with buffalo oil, and a child’s quiet certainty that we were all going to die. It’s the most frightening night of this entire journey. And it’s the one I still carry with me, decades later, every time it rains.