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promise to keep

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

I sort of disappeared on the guys after Simon’s presentatation. I found a little spot out under some trees where I could vent my thoughts. Odd that Richard had a camera on me right at that moment. I was looking at his picture trying to see any bit of how I was feeling expressed on [...]

Apostle Islands Sea Caves

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Suffice to say you’re going to see a few of these little posts as I organize all the stuff from the last few days into some sort of order. The last bit for today is a little gallery from our trip to and through the sea caves and arches of the Apostles on Lake Superior [...]

Velocity Girl

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

With her amazing speed, kayak maniac Adriene Levknecht let hot doggers Alex Pak and Simon Osborne know they had a bit more work to do! She again won the WMCKA speed rolling contest with 11 rolls in 20 seconds. But then Alex and his Greenland stick should get a few style points!
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Manypenny Avenue

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

Wow, time to head back south already. From the front end it seems like you’re waiting forever to finally drop your kayak on the beach, then suddenly you’re packing up to leave. I think that’s why I don’t spend to much time anticipating the future. The future is usually gone before you realized it came. [...]

quick note

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

Well it took me forever to post something didn’t it?? All is well up here in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Yesterday we toured Living Adventures near Red Cliff and were amazed by the size of their facilities. From kayak maintainence to food preperation they have everything coming together like clock work for the new [...]

2 up, 1 down

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Thats what I saidI keep on telling youThat right smack dab in the middle of townI found a paradise thats troubleproofAnd if this old world starts a getting you downTheres room enough for twoUp on the roof…- james taylor
So I see a bunch of bloggers all dropping offline to actually go do what [...]

inukshuk

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Walk the creature let it run but slacken not the rope to which it’s boundShips in bottles cannot sail and neither can a tombstone kill a featherTalisman, talisman grace my hand – backman-cummings
So here is my promised showing of RW’s new Valley Anas Acuta. Off hand it seems like there are a lot of them [...]