http://www.kayakquixotica.com Tilting At Waves Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:09:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2012/01/25/don-ho-solution/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2012/01/25/don-ho-solution/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:22:43 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=9305 Now here’s a bit of interesting news.  Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Makers of great big ships among other things.) has come up with this cool, efficient, and dare I say, “fun” way to cut up to 25 percent of CO2 emissions from large cargo carriers.  Heck, they’ll even go a bit faster as well!  The big idea?  [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2012/01/25/don-ho-solution/feed/ 1 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2012/01/24/no-parking/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2012/01/24/no-parking/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:37:30 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=9298 Now here’s the real problem with outdoor recreation during the winter months… No parking.  Oh sure, the roads get plowed. Even that crazy road that climbs the hill to nowhere gets plowed. The driveway at the dentist’s office gets plowed. I mean, who really wants to go there??  And you can bet that some dude [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2012/01/24/no-parking/feed/ 0 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2012/01/23/the-real-outdoor-news-from-ces/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2012/01/23/the-real-outdoor-news-from-ces/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:33:16 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=9287 The coolest news for paddlers and other outdoor enthusiasts may have come not from Outdoor Retailer’s 2012 Winter Market, but from the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show where new nano-technology was introduced that may soon bring us all waterproof smart phones and tablets. It’s hard to imagine another innovation that has such potential to actually change [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2012/01/23/the-real-outdoor-news-from-ces/feed/ 4 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2012/01/07/winter-bah/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2012/01/07/winter-bah/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:17:49 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=9279 O.K. So let me be honest here.  I’m dreaming of summer. I’ll admit it.  I don’t know what ever came over our silly ancestors as the continued to move north way back in the day.  Sure, it was probably summer as they traveled further and further north toward the top of the earth. At first, things [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2012/01/07/winter-bah/feed/ 3 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2012/01/05/the-season-of-sticks/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2012/01/05/the-season-of-sticks/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:53:52 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=9265 The brown season is upon us here in central Wisconsin.  Well, it’s nearly brown, mostly brown, primarily brown. Yes, there’s some snow, some ostracized bits of white clinging to the edges of the roads and hugging the walking trails. These miniature mountainous ranges of white are all that is left to remind us of this season’s occasional short [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2012/01/05/the-season-of-sticks/feed/ 0