Up on the Right Side of the Mushroom
Published November 17, 2005 | 
At any given moment
We could crash or be drowned,
Hitting the ground, oh my!
Here on who,
The tiniest Planet in the sky
- “Here on Who”
What a cold snowy day we had yesterday. As I drove to Spring Green for a photo shoot I passed along the many sloughs and hidden channels of the Wisconsin river that escort county highway C into town. I keep thinking to myself I have to get out there and explore! The lack of any decent landings means either seal launching from the side of the road or traipsing through some swamp to get to an open channel. Yet, it has to be done. I’ve driven past that river many times in the last couple years, it tasks me.Thinking about a vacation to the UK this winter? Well, now’s a good time. The National Mountaineering Centre in Penrith is serving a wonderful supper on December 9th. You can expect Thai green curry chicken or sweat and sour Mediterranean veg served with rice and potatoes. The real judge of the meal will be if they use real Thai green eggplants or cop out and use peas. What a great meal for around $11/6.50GBP! (not including airfare & auto rental) Oh, and I almost forgot, if you want to chuck in a little more cash I hear Justine Curgenven will be speaking. (bar opens at 6)
Speaking of JC, Christmas is coming early for a lot of kayakers now that the new copies of This is The Sea 2 are in the mail in Europe and being packed up by “poor Jim the kayak elf” (sorry Jim it just sounded too good) here in the US, we are assured such sweet anticipation is quickly coming to an end. In celebration of this event remember to leave Santa and his reindeer a little treat. Forgo the cookies, rumor has it Santa is fond of Mushrooms!
I have a lot of kayaking friends who are of the “weekend & warm days” sort. So when I start rambling on about wind and waves they tend to glaze over with looks of “You know you’re crazy don’t you?!” looks swirling around their faces. Well……….Yes, actually….. I do know I’m crazy, but what’s that have to do with kayaking?. So I end up always trying to show that outside of our little home here in central Wisconsin there are a bunch of us “crazies” out there. (I probably shouldn’t say that or they’ll have the Wickersham brothers on us in no time. “WE ARE HERE!, WE ARE HERE!, WE ARE HERE!!!!!!”.) The concept is that if you can find a bunch of others doing it, it can’t be crazy. . Or maybe it’s something to do with that bit about “If he jumped of a cliff would you do that too??” . Either way, here’s a nice post from one of the crazies who went through BCU 5* training at the NorCal Symposium last month.
Well, I think that’s it then. Isn’t it cool how we can zip from Wisconsin to England back to Wisconsin and out to California in just a few paragraphs? The internet is just so flippin’ fantastic! Oh and by the way if you’re really feeling bad that you can’t get to England for that Curry Chicken here’s a recipe http://www.recipesource.com/ethnic/asia/thai/01/rec0191.html.
- d
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3 Responses to Up on the Right Side of the Mushroom
I’m still on the fence regarding Justine’s new video. While I want to see the Doug Van Doren sections and the Bitches stuff, I’m not really interested in the tripping sections (Tazmania, etc.) I guess all the whitewater videos I’ve watched have spoiled me for sea kayaking. Give me adrenaline pumping insanity or give me cool rolls and I’ll pass on distance.
I’ll have the Thai chicken I suppose, the Sweat and Sour Veggies don’t sound that appetizing. LOL!
Oh, and Justine, if you eat the mushrooms, please remember that you can’t really fly. Step back from the cliff please, I still wanna see “Sea 3″ when you get around to it. Rolls, chills, spills, trips and all. : )
Thomas
Hey Thomas!
You’d better post that warning over at Justine’s site. I don’t know that she gets over here too often.