moody, blustery, bitchy sea
Published June 9, 2009 | 
The continents and the seven oceans
Bound the range of my emotions
My time is long but not forever
My moods are the changing wind and weather
– the waterboys
Everyone looks at travel differently. Travel can seem frivolous to some while being as necessary as oxygen to others. Some travel by taking all the comforts of home with them. All the while our world tries to become one big shopping mall decorated by all the same chain stores. Humans hate the unfamiliar and yet it’s the unfamiliar that made travel something that many throughout history have called essential to wisdom. Luckily if you’ve found sea kayaking, you’ve found a way to travel and still experience what’s left of diversity around the world.
Audible Trangialation…
Published April 9, 2009 | 
I apologize but I won’t be able to post a blog today. You see I find my phone is ringing off the hook so much I can hardly even think about paddling. I mean, I did think about paddling once when the phone rang. It was Kelly. We were talking about the pluses and minuses of the Trangia Stoves, tents that hang under their fly so you stay dry when you set them up, and digital cameras that shoot 100 minutes of video…
Accidentally Flavorless Ordinary Life
Published April 8, 2009 | 
What has happened to it all?
Crazy, some are saying
Where is the life that I recognize?
– duran duran
I was walking out of the Tescos in Holyhead, Wales. There was a police car in front of me, one of those tiny ones with the Cheap Trick paint jobs. I walked by it to the right hand drivers side of my rented white Vauxhall Astra. Adjusting my grocery bag in one hand I got the keys out of my pocket and hit the clicker. The Astra beeped back. I put the keys back in my pocket to free up my hand and open the door. I tossed my bag filled with sausage rolls & mars bars (see: The Penrhyn Mawr diet) in the back seat, and sat down behind the wheel. There with the door open, just sitting, surrounded by the muddle of traffic, voices and banging carts of an ordinary day and I thought… “How great is this!?”.
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Astra, Expeditions, Holyhead, Tescos, Vauxhall, walesLost Horizons
Published April 6, 2009 | 
I felt a warm warm breeze / That melted metal and steel
I got a bad migraine / That lasted three long years
And the pills that I took / Made my fingers disappear
Time will craw
– bowie
So anyway this plane is skyjacked and as if that’s not enough it crashes somewhere in the Himalayas. In the middle of a crazy snowstorm these mysterious guys show up and take the survivors to a mystical land where everyone lives forever. Well, as long as they never leave… Nothing lasts forever. And that really bums me out.
What’s the Point?
Published April 4, 2009 | 
The point of it all? The reason for the investment.. the time, the gear, the plane tickets, the time away from home, job and family.. The point? You want to know why? I should have thought it would have been obvious.. The chance to appear on the Nessie Cam of course!!
Keeping Up Appearances
Published April 4, 2009 | 
We’ll try to stay blind
to the hope and fear outside
Hey child, stay wilder than the wind
And blow me in to cry
Who do you need, who do you love
When you come undone
– duran duran
So the story was in the end, educational. This paddler had completed an amazing, amazing adventure. Yet, they were not particularly skilled or talented, their rough water experience was nil, their navigation skills were left wanting, their roll well, accidental and on and on. The trick? Only paddling on days when it was dead calm.
The Poet McTeagle (why not?)
Published April 3, 2009 |
Can I have fifty pounds to mend the shed?
I’m right on my uppers.
I can pay you back
When this postal order comes from Australia.
Honestly.
Hope the bladder trouble’s geting better.
Love, Ewan
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