Our September Adventure Draws Near
Our return is less than four months away. Our team is almost complete and we’re working on the few details we can actually handle in advance. Its starting to feel like its really going to happen. Its been four years since Tammy and I were down there but our...
The Worst Grant Application
3/3/2013 Pressure from friends made me write this. About a year and a half ago, Tammy and I wanted to apply for a Teva Life Agent Grant for this project. We thought making a video application might not be too hard. Well, we were wrong, but thanks to the tireless...
Adventurers wanted, September 2013
Adventurers wanted, September of 2013. This year! This time has come to return to the Maranon in search of Clark’s discoveries along this Amazon tributary over 60 years ago. Its been nearly 5 years since Tammy and I completed our recon trip and we are committed to...
An Adventurer Has Joined Our Team
Tammy and Dan welcome Travis Rogers to the Team. We’ll let him introduce himself in his own words, but we look forward to a rich collaboration before the next departure date in 2013! Welcome aboard Travis! I have foremost the love for novels that look like...
EXPLORERS WANTED!
“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success.” Ernest Shackleton ran this ad in 1914 to recruit men for his expedition to the...
Connections
As we work on our next grant, plan the next visit and research the details in the book, an interesting this is happening. We are starting to receive emails from people related to the story in different ways, all asking for help connecting to others we are in touch...
“There, too, I must and will search.” The Power of El Dorado
“El Dorado (Land of the Golden Man) is a fabulous country of immeasurable treasure…..” thus wrote home the Imperial Spaniards of Castile and Leon. Yet, in spite of all the gold pilfered from Peru (estimated to be in the billions) the Spaniards became obsessed with...
Hello New Readers!
Welcome to our website, where the continuation of our crazy adventure in the jungles of Peru will take shape. We will soon… (“soon” as in Geologically speaking)…. be adding more team pictures, a Map link, and if we’re lucky, maybe even a...
Sponsorship!
Today we are proud to announce that the Timmissartok Foundation has approved our project for funding. They’ve also agreed to help market the project. In addition, we are in the middle of negotiations with an equipment sponsor and others who’ve expressed...
San Pedro de las Bocas Cemetery
I feel another adventure brewing. Melinda Clark, Leonard Clark’s daughter, informed us that the Venezuelan newspapers reported that her father was buried in the “cemetery of San Pedro de Las Bocas, a small government post on the edge of the jungle”...