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/2010/05/27/i-hate-navigation/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/05/27/i-hate-navigation/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 13:02:58 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=5969 Let's just get this right out of the way. I HATE navigation. I mean, I LOVE maps and charts. As a teenager I used to stare at maps for hours. Even now I enjoy examining them and imagining how to get from point A to point B by car or kayak. What I hate is academic navigation. The bit where we toss a bunch of labels on common sense ideas, get all worked up measuring this and adding that to come up with some magical, algebraical solution to paddling across a bay in conditions where most of us should never leave the beach. ]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/05/27/i-hate-navigation/feed/ 2 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/04/15/telling-stories-2/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/04/15/telling-stories-2/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:19:22 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=3854 Is it true that everyone in paddling but me used to ride with their parents in the back of an old, wood paneled, station wagon up to some Adirondack paradise and paddle past black bears while their fathers who always wore plaid, taught them to use a compass?]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/04/15/telling-stories-2/feed/ 3