Most of us abandon our childhood dreams, and Kevin Wood was no different. As a boy he’d been enchanted by ships and he wanted desperately to sail the seven seas. Then he did the sensible thing and went to college on a normal career path.
But one summer on a visit to Key West, he encountered a docked tall ship. The next thing he knew he was training to sail, dropping out of college, and beginning a life at sea.
Wood did get around to going back to college. These days he has a second career as a climate scientist at the University of Washington, a job that allows him to still be on ships for weeks or months each year. He joined Gabriel Spitzer to talk about turning his childhood dream into a way of life.
