Ok, so I’m still a little stiff this next morning. But I did want to get out on Lake Michigan one more time before leaving for Michigan proper on Tuesday. It’s actually a pretty nice paddle from Seagull Marina in Two Rivers north to the lighthouse at Point Beach and back.

Gear , Gear, Gear, Gear. Let me share, if you did’nt hear,
I’m getting some gear! I’m getting some gear!
No fun gear, bought that stuff last year,
Just boring necessity gear.
Every year there’s more boring, necessity gear.

Since I’ve done very little camping out of my kayak I’ve been digging through a lot of information about cook stoves, tents, sleeping bags, etc., mainly concerned with size and weight. I could certainly bore you with hours of details in this regard but not this time. I ended up getting going to MSR for a Windpro stove, Ventana Tent, and Miox water treatment system.

Got a devil’s haircut in my mind – beck
Bugs Bunny sure was in drag an awful lot! Do you remember the bit where he dressed up as the Tasmanian She-Devil? If you’re a trivia buff that was in “Bedevilled Rabbit” from 1957. Anyway, that just jumped into my head while I was putting this post [...]

Don’t you know, they’re talkin’ about a revolution, it sounds like a whisper – tracy chapman

What’s weird in our world? Ha! Where to start! I’ll take the blame for my weirdness. . . .
Confession number one; I often sit in a steaming hot bath with the shower running as well. . . . I love [...]

I will watch her dive beneath, the white cascading waters, she may beg she may plead, she may argue with her logic and then mention all the things I’ll lose, that really have no value, in the end she will surely know, I wasn’t born to follow – Carol King

Here’s a picture [...]

So just a quick note today. I had hoped to make it up to the Paddle America event in Manitowoc but the morning did not play out that way. The next choice was to go out on Mirror Lake near Wisconsin Dells. This turned out to be a lucky break. Out in the slough Sandhill [...]