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Wandering Knight

The Wandering Knight Podcast is created by Kenneth Knight.

 

Kenneth is legally blind, a computer geek, a world traveller, a long-distance backpacker, and so much more. This podcast brings his perspective, that of someone with low-vision, of the world to life. 

Oct 28, 2008

North Manitou island is approximate 7-3/4 miles long and 4-1/4 miles wide. The highest point on the island is 1,001 feet above sea level and therefore 428 feet above Lake Michigan. That high point is somewhere on the northwest corner of the island and we would not visit it this trip we probably were not that far from...


Small Mistake in Episode 6

Oct 21, 2008

Some of you have already downloaded Episode 6 of the Wandering Knight podcast. Perhaps you have noticed the interesting overdub that plays at the start of Hello Dave's song Michigan. My apologies for that tiny mess up. It is a bit of recording by me from the first night signing off for the evening that I forgot to...


Oct 21, 2008

North Manitou Island, the larger of the two islands, is a designated wilderness area. The only real way to reach it if you are not a serious paddler yourself, and the paddle from the mainland to the island should not be under-estimated as Lake Michigan is a serious body of water worthy of considerable respect, is via...


Oct 6, 2008

Part 5 of my journey across Scotland. From Tarfside to the coast and then Dunnottar Casle required me to walk about 53 kilometers. While the journey can certainly be done in two days I stretched it out to 2 and a half days. In some ways this bit of hiking was the most challenging and most frustrating of any I would do....


Oct 1, 2008

Part 4 of my journey across Scotland. This section would prove, in some ways, my most difficult. The walk out of Braemar was the long way around on the highway to Invercould Bridge but at least I got to share much of it with another Challenger which livened things up. Even my navigation error wasn't a really awful thing...