Canoecopia Saturday ReTwit
Published March 13, 2011 | 
The upside of smart phones is that you can quickly take photos, write a bit of text and instantly serve it up online. The downside is that you can quickly take photos, write a bit of text and instantly serve it up online… The camera sorta sucks a lot, and the typos… well, I’m famous for typos! I blasted off the shot above as a was strolling through the atrium of the Alliant Energy Center yesterday. The Coastguard auxiliary seemed to be reaching out to the next generation (Or going through a second childhood!). Continue reading
Hello Madison
Published August 24, 2009 | 
The interesting thing about paddling in Madison, Wisconsin, is how quickly you can go from urban water nightmare to lost in the wilderness. For the last hour or so of a 2 day Kayak Fundamentals class I ask students if they would like to spend an hour paddling in a marsh or take a longer trip though the bumper boat mayhem of the Yahara river filled with gas fumes, beer cans and oiled up, sun drenched, cougars in bikinis to get out to a big lake and nice skyline. They inevitably vote for the marsh. Well sometimes they vote for the cougars…
Busy day at Canoecopia. I’ll have more pictures for you tomorrow. Foolishly I took all today’s event photos in a format I can’t open on my laptop! (You can bet I’ve taken care of that now.) Well, with the couple hours I have available until the premiere of Justine Curgenven’s DVD, ” This is Canoeing“ I thought I’d take a moment to ask you to ponder this… Continue reading →