after my daughter died, i tried to kill myself sailing around cape horn

in this episode,... rick and i start discussing his sailboat episodes when he tried to kill himself sailing around the cape of south africa after his daughter died.
he was determined to die at sea, to be with his daughter
how he survived, where he went and the people he met, and how he maneuvered his life during these times. how he survived storms and ended up on a nude beach in colombia
i first met rick about 15 years ago,
when we first met he had just gotten out of prison,
he was travelling across country and we met at the VFW
he needed money for travelling, and i gave him a hundred bucks to continue his journey, it was later he re-appeared in quartzsite only for him to move to quartzsite for a short time to re-establish a work cycle for himself after being released from prison. i was his only contact, and for some reason he trusted me. we did many projects in quartzsite and beyond in and around the area. he and alecia had separated out and that was when he went back to iraq under a private contractor status, his felonies expunged
here in the following episodes, rick and i discuss his episodes after getting out of vietnam, and the times he spent throughout his life, his accomplishments and his failures, his lessons hard learned and easily remembered. his story is long and the journey complex, from orphan to vet to drug runner to felon, back to war, from being so rich to being the most poor, rags to riches and back again.
his stories are movie worthy and worth capturing as i am the only one he trusts with the stories

thanks for being a part of the story, as it unfolds, the order may be varied, as i am unskilled in that area, and have dozens and dozens of videos yet to be digested fully, and more coming in every day.

thanks for subscribing and leaving a comment, it means the world to us, rick included, he is aware of some of the recordings, and i try to grab the camera as often as i can, because he gave me full authority to capture all i can.

rick is an airplane pilot who smuggled drugs from colombia and peru, both via plane and ships, he has been indicted on 28 felony counts and only 2 of them stuck because he had john gottis lawyer.
the story only gets crazier from there

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do all you can each and every day to help others succeed, in the end it is worth it to know that you have had an impact on a life.

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do all you can each and every day to help others succeed, in the end it is worth it to know that you have had an impact on a life.

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