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/2011/12/27/on-this-lastday/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/12/27/on-this-lastday/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:45:39 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=9212 The morning dawn of December 25th broke coldly over the southeastern horizon just as it should.  It is winter after all!  I know the days are getting longer now, but that doesn’t provide much comfort… or heat for that matter.  Still, the forecast was calling for a nice sunny day, near 40f.  If it hadn’t [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/12/27/on-this-lastday/feed/ 1 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/12/13/counting-geese/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/12/13/counting-geese/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:55:20 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=9172 It’s a good thing that I only have a couple more days left on my 100 mile paddle at Devil’s Lake State Park, the amount of open water on the lake is shrinking each day.  For the moment, the massive number of Canada geese hanging out at the park seem happy with the expanding ice. [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/12/13/counting-geese/feed/ 5 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/11/29/27/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/11/29/27/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:45:09 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=9160 Did you know that Canoecopia tickets are already available for 2012?  Ticket prices went up for 2012, but if you get on your horse you can save a bit by purchasing yours online right away.  I’m assuming you already know that Canoecopia is the countries largest paddle sports expo and is held each year in [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/11/29/27/feed/ 0 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/11/10/another-day/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/11/10/another-day/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:22:24 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=9131 Only 10 days left and I’ll finally have my 100 miles down.  Good thing too because winter is nipping right at my tail.  I posted the story of yesterday’s snowy paddle, along with a 3 minute video clip over at DevilsLakeWisconsin.com.  Here’s the link. Related posts: A Brand New Day Chest Sculling off to chicago]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/11/10/another-day/feed/ 0 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/11/09/bad-weather/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/11/09/bad-weather/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:09:53 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=9125 “Seems you only paddle in wind and bad weather”, that was something someone said to me yesterday when I was launching my kayak for Day 23 of my Devil’s Lake paddle.  I thought to myself, “Where were you yesterday?”.  The day before the skies were blue, there was no wind and for November, it wasn’t [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/11/09/bad-weather/feed/ 0