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/2009/09/02/next-season/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/09/02/next-season/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:05:33 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=5015 I’ve just begun sending out inquiries to lots of kayak companies about their hot new kayaks for 2010. (Amazingly some folks got back to me in just a couple hours!!) I’ll be showing off the new boats over the winter while most of us are stuck indoors roasting chestnuts, playing Madden NFL 10 and dreaming of Canoecopia. (Our Australian friends on the other hand will be out surfing!!!… Grrrrr!!!) BTW, If you are producing a funky new kayak you’d like to show off now just tell me all about it at derrick@kayakquixotica.com, and send along a really nice picture or two. I’ll do my best to pass it on.. But be warned… I know a few harsh critics!]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/09/02/next-season/feed/ 2 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/02/06/train-windows/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/02/06/train-windows/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:57:14 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=3189 Meanwhile all sorts of little things flash by us in the windows of the passing train. They flicker by us so fast our conscious mind has little time to itemize what we are seeing in through the passing glass. Then hours or days later we suddenly realize something obvious that we should have saw right off. . . "Was that goat in the window wearing a pink tie"!!?]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/02/06/train-windows/feed/ 0 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2005/04/20/telekayakification/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2005/04/20/telekayakification/#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:12:00 +0000 derrick http://cheesestate.com/quixotica/?p=43 Once I was swimming cross Turtle creek, many snappers all around my feet, sure was hard swimming cross that thing, with both hands holdin’ my ding a ling – Chuck Berry Do You know what’s strange? When you’re on the water and the phone rings, you stop paddling, put your paddle under an arm, and [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2005/04/20/telekayakification/feed/ 3 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2005/03/27/redemption-song/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2005/03/27/redemption-song/#comments Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:25:00 +0000 derrick http://cheesestate.com/quixotica/?p=35 “Good friends we have had, oh good friends we’ve lost along the way, In this bright future you can’t forget your past” – Bob Marley It’s 7am Sunday (Easter) morning. Later today we will again be going out for a day paddle with friends from the area. Today as I think of loading the boats, [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2005/03/27/redemption-song/feed/ 0