Re: [Paddlewise] Greeenland paddling Style?

From: 735769 <735769_at_ican.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 07:06:58 -0400
Ralph wrote;

(SNIP)


>
>Learning the Greenland style closer to its true source in Mexico and
>Guatemala has enormous advantages:
>
>1.  The water temperatures are much warmer; no need for stinky sealskin
>or neoprene wetsuits
>
>2.  Airfares are much cheaper to Central America than they are to
>Greenland and the area is much closer to Texas so that John Heath can
>cut down on his travel time
>
>3.  Greater variety of food beyond the blubber diet further north
>
>4.  A longer, safer paddling season
>
>5.  No ice cream headaches while learning the 3,241 different
>Intergalactic rolls (the Greenlanders got a distilled list of rolls in
>what was passed on by the Mayan and which numbered a mere dozen or so)
>
>6.  Maligiaq Padilla, the Greenland junior national champion, would fit
>right in as he is half-Mexican
>

And we will all need to take our folding boats because they don't have
highly developed sea kayak tourism down there.

Cheers,
John Winters
Redwing Designs
Web site address, http://home.ican.net/~735769

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Received on Thu Jul 15 1999 - 04:38:18 PDT

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