Total Immersion
Published January 9, 2006 | 
days like this keep me warm,
keep me warm,
keep us warm – the spree
Happy Monday! Well, last week the emails were starting to go round as arrangments for staff at this year’s Canoecopia are being made. Mary and I both expect to spend a good part of the weekend “working our fingers to the bone”. and these emails were the beginning of a kayak “flood” over the next few days.
Then Friday the owner of Vertical Illusions in Wisconsin Dells gave me a call. We spent a good amount of time talking about the kayaking opportunites in this area and his shop’s plans for summer. It sounds like Kayak lessons and Guided trips on the Upper & Lower Dells will be a big part of it.
Saturday Mary and I were loaded up and just dropping off Gryphon at the sitter before heading off to L. Columbia, when a car pulls up and the driver says “Hey is that a Greenlander?”. What were the odds we would run into a SOF builder from Reedsburg? Cool.
No need to mention the lady at the gas station who asked if that’s a sailboat on our jeep!!!
When we arrived at the lake we found another couple (photo above) had beat us to the launch and were getting their gear together. After returning to their home in Illinois from a paddling trip to Florida they decided to come up to Lake Columbia! In our part of the country warm water is an addiction this time of year!
That evening I came home to find an email from an author putting together a book of “informal groups” who was researching our little paddling “non-communities”.
Then yesterday I received an email from Thomas Barmonte of the Chicago Area Sea Kayakers Association (CASKA). He is putting together a little list of kayak bloggers for everyone in the Chicago group who are probably getting as cabin crazy as the rest of us. Thanks for that Thomas! He’d better link Bonnie & Wenley or they’ll get the impression that all blogs are as hackneyed as mine!!
There are times when this crazy sport, habit, addiction permeate every part of your life. Heck, I have two kayak models about 6 inches from my nose as I type this! It’s total immersion! And that’s ok. . . as long as the water is warm.
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5 Responses to Total Immersion
Hackneyed? Listen, if Best of Blogs had a “best kayak blog” category I would nominate you in a second.
aw shucks. . . you are so sweet. . or is that insane? I know there’s an ‘S’ in it somewhere. Maybe it’s, “full of. . .”
But thank you just the same.
how about d) all of the above?
I can’t believe that Canoecopia is coming up already. I konw it still 2 months away, but that usually is the signal for me to start thinking about warmer weather. We haven’t even gotten started with winter yet!
We had our tuilik bee this past weekend which was a blast. Pictures will be posted soon. It will be an interesting sight for future paddles as we’ll have a whole gang of paddlers in tuiliks and skinny sticks where once there were just one or two. I wonder if this is a sign of things to come…
tuilik bee? hmmm, kayak quilts next? Ha! I’d better start my square!