This actually has nothing at all to do with Halloween other than the time stamp on this picture. Took a little trip to Indiana Dunes State Park and captured this gorgeous industrial horizon sunset. Mmmmmmm… pollution!
This post is one of pride as well as shame. I purchased a “Bag of Crap” from Woot. For the uninitiated, Woot is a site that features one item (often techy) for sale every day, available until midnight central time or it (occasionally) sells out. Then, there is the Woot-Off…… Continue reading
GPS tracklog overlay. The above was made at GPS Visualizer. It makes some very nice plots, and has a lot of configuration options. The only downside is that because it’s all done through a web interface, there’s a lot of slow iterations to find the settings that work. In that… Continue reading
Last weekend I had a chance to add a new island to the kayaking repertoire. Doug, Callum and I had been to South Manitou a few years back. This time, Todd and Linda were making a quick trip to the North island. The trip was fist planned a week earlier,… Continue reading
Every other Wednesday throughout the summer a group called GRASP – Grand Rapids Area Sport Paddlers – “organizes” an evening paddle. Yesterday was the first time that the opportunity and motivation coincided and I decided to attend one. Josh, Megan and Claudia were also there, so we had our own… Continue reading
First extended weekend of the year = first kayaking trip of the year. At least that’s the goal. With this in mind, on Tuesday, I put out a suggestion that I wanted to do some version of the Mackinaw City to Mackinac Island / Round Island trip. It’s short notice,… Continue reading
In preparation for WMCKA next weekend, I figured I’d better get some paddling time in. I also wanted to get a bit more time paddling the fiberglass boat, which despite being the same design as the plastic one, handles differently. Saturday, I was informed that the Grand Haven Kite Festival… Continue reading
Tour of Asia 2: The Pictures The last entry was posted with some haste due to a departing plane. Also, these two combined would result in an overly long entry I think. So, here we have some additional thoughts, comments and pictures from my second trip ’round Asia. We had… Continue reading
Saturday, at 1:05 in the afternoon, I successfully missed the first leg of of what was to be a three leg international flight to Seoul. Saturday, at about 1:20, I was reseated and scheduled for a couple different flights, which would in the end get me to the same place… Continue reading
Josh and I had our first kayaking venture of the season on Saturday. Todd, who is prepping for a trip to the Aleutian Islands sometime later this summer, wanted to start getting practice in wind, waves and frigid water. To this end, we went over to the North Shore Beach… Continue reading