Ali Carr Troxell has written for Men's Journal, ESPN.com, Sunset, Gear Patrol, Travel + Leisure, REI.com and more. She was an editor at Outside for six years and worked as a digital media editor at Travel + Leisure and Food & Wine before anyone knew what a blog was.
My Father's SOS—From the Middle of the Sea
Richard Carr, a retired psychologist who had long dreamed of sailing around the world, was in the middle of the Pacific when he started sending frantic messages that said pirates were boarding his boat. Two thousand miles away in Los Angeles, his family woke up to a nightmare: he might be dying alone, and there was almost nothing they could do about it.