We left Chicago at around 6:30AM flying into Denver on Southwest. This was my first time flying Southwest after a lot of flying, mostly on Delta. A few things were different — the main one being no predetermined seats. Southwest has everyone line up by check in number and then… Continue reading
Here I sit, freshly returned from Grand Marais this year. Josh and I headed up to do some paddling in the U.P. but we weren’t officially attending the Great Lakes Sea Kayaking Symposium. We did get to hang out with some people though, and as a result may be going… Continue reading
I’m not sure of the exact date at the moment, but sometime in mid July, Todd and Linda had organized a kayaking trip to Lime Island in the UP / Canada. The plan was to get to the launch around 5:30 on Friday evening and head over to the Island… Continue reading
Last weekend was the annual Western Michigan Coastal Kayakers Association symposium. It runs from Thursday evening through noon Sunday and is pretty much two full days of various classes, events, talks and socializing with other semi-local kayakers. Since Doug and I started kayaking in ’05 it has kind of marked… Continue reading
Wednesday through Friday was the 2008 Magnetics Conference put on by webcom in Denver, CO. Wednesday was the magnetics boot camp, which was pretty much a one day crash course in magnetics. In theory, this makes up for the fact that neither Josh nor I have any magnetics classes or… Continue reading
Monday I was in Novi for a work meeting with one of our suppliers. Six of us went down from Grand Rapids and 9 or so of them came up from Ohio. Lots of discussion on where we stand and where we are going as far as eCoupled building blocks…. Continue reading