a) Name Mel & Julie Grindol b) Contact details &/or location grindol_at_my-deja.com Shawnee, KS. (Suburb of Kansas City) (Sea kayaking in Kansas?!? We have a multitude of decent sized lakes and there is always the Kansas river. Check out the Kansas Canoe Association (http://www.kansas.net/~tjhittle/) ). c) Kayaks owned or paddled (boat names also if you like) Mel's: Necky Looksha IV (plastic) (but lusting after a fiberglass Romany Explorer) Julie's: Perception Shadow (plastic) (but wants something kevlar) Both: Wenonah Minnesota II (ultra light kevlar) aka "The Wavemistress" d) Boat name and serial number if maritime radio operator N/A e) Special interests Mel: Sports cars, computer games. Julie: Cats, cooking. Both: Science fiction books and movies, Tae Kwon Do. f) Specialist knowledge N/A g) Strong opinions (I doubt we'll have any of those :~) So long as you don't force your opinions on me I won't force my opinions on you. h) Most interesting kayak trip Our only trip to date, a week on Ross Lake in the North Cascades National Park. Beautiful scenery with no one else at the campsites about half the week. Two nights we shared campgrounds with a hiking youth group which consisted of some crazy people who swam in the lake (that water wasn't even 40 degrees F). SUGGESTED CATEGORY: i) Personal Info Married (to each other), no kids (unless you count three very spoiled cats). Both under the age of 30 (though not for much longer). Mel works as a computer programmer (but has a mechanical engineering degree). Julie works as a reference librarian at a world famous science and technology library (actually using her degree). Planning on taking (and passing) the BCU 3 star assesment test in the summer of 2000. Then we want to take GRO's intermediate kayaking class. Final note: Our permission is granted to use our earlier posts from the "Who we are thread." --- There are three types of people, those who can count and those who can't. --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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