Re: [Paddlewise] Journaling

After canoeing for 3 years without keeping a journal, I suddenly realized that I was losing part of the paddling experience.  I've kept a journal since late summer this year.  For me, it doesn't have the same character if I do it on the computer.  Maybe it turns it into work for me ... so I do my journal in a blank notebook.  I write in script, too, probably the only writing in script that I do anymore other than signing my name.  I can paste in a map or a list of GPS coordinates (my traditional nature is limited only to the journal) or sketch a map or a view or some lucky critter.

I plan out trips, write up trips from past seasons and scouting reports from places I may try in future, and ramble about gear in my journal, in addition to the page I write up after each trip.

Say, what's all this talk of winter?  My son and I took the Navarro Loon out yesterday for 8 miles on the Alviso Slough.  We were both in short sleeves.  We saw lots of migrating and resident birds (herons, egrets, many different kinds of gulls, oystercatchers, geese and several kinds of ducks), plus a seal or two. Some of the year's best morning high tides are coming up (on the west coast), Sunday Nov. 21, Monday December 20 and Wednesday January 19.


At 03:15 PM 11/14/1999 +0000, Wes Boyd wrote:
>At 08:41 AM 11/14/99 -0800, Doug Lloyd wrote:
>>How many paddlers keep a journal or diary of their trips? Most travel books
>
>I do. When the nights get long and the water gets hard, I find my journal a
>way to help me make it to spring.
>
>>to my desk top computer via a cradle hooked up to my com port 2. Anybody
>>else use "computer-age" tecnology to journal?  
>
>I do keep my journal on my desktop computer, and print it out to hard copy
>when I get a few pages built up. When in the field, I make notes in a
>notebook, then type them onto my computer when I'm home. I was in a West
>Marine store the other day, and discovered a waterproof notebook. It's
>going to be a regular part of the gear next year. (This year is pretty well
>done for me -- the water will be getting too hard soon, and it's too cold
>for me to go paddling except in very placid, benign conditions.)
>
>-- Wes
>
>***************************************************************************
>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/
>***************************************************************************
> 
***************************************************************************
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/
***************************************************************************