ED RICKETTS AND JOHN STEINBECK WERE, IN STEINBECK’S OWN WORDS, “OBVIOUSLY RIDICULOUS” WITH THEIR 1940 IDEA OF A SIX-WEEK-LONG EXPEDITION TO THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA. No wonder that when they
Agata Popęda here, thinking about The Western Flyer—the fishing boat that took John Steinbeck, Ed Ricketts and other crew members on their journey to Baja—which is now officially on its