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/2011/11/09/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 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/09/29/bone-head-paddling/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/09/29/bone-head-paddling/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:52:46 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=9016 You could probably guess I was running a bit scattershot the last few days. It sure showed up this morning I can tell you. I ran the morning obstacle course out the door with the intent to be on the lake for day 8 of my 100 mile paddle. Getting to the lake was the easy part. Yeah, I was wearing my sexy base layers.. but what I didn't do was bring my outer layers. Oops! Well, I was there wasn't I? So with the sun shining through some broken clouds to the east I figured I could get away it. ]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/09/29/bone-head-paddling/feed/ 4 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/08/13/torrent/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/08/13/torrent/#comments Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:02:06 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=8732 As I said recently, I love the rain.  Yesterday, I certainly didn’t expect the crazy downpour that caught me out on my local lake, but it was certainly a nice surprise.   The trick at Devil’s Lake is that you simply can’t see very far into the horizon in any direction, so you’re never sure what’s [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/08/13/torrent/feed/ 0 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2005/01/22/sensual-kayaking/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2005/01/22/sensual-kayaking/#comments Sun, 23 Jan 2005 03:39:00 +0000 derrick http://cheesestate.com/quixotica/?p=13 Tonight as I write this I am glad to be sitting here in a warm little house. Last night’s snowstorm just buried us in a blanket of white. Our small cinder block home is anchored in the middle of a large farm field. From here you can never tell how much snow actually fell as [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2005/01/22/sensual-kayaking/feed/ 0 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2004/12/15/on-the-horizon/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2004/12/15/on-the-horizon/#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:11:00 +0000 derrick http://cheesestate.com/quixotica/?p=7 Since I like going out in nasty weather it becomes part of the task to get a grip on just HOW nasty it actually is. Besides checking the weather and Noaa Marine Forcast I spend some time just stareing out over the water to just get the “feel” of things. If it “just doesn’t feel [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2004/12/15/on-the-horizon/feed/ 0