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 keep one, and actually, I post it to the web (see link below). I do it though for a number of wierd reasons. 1. I can't remember squat on my own, without the log file, I'd never be able to cumulatively learn any nifty kayak tricks, nor remember where I've been before. 2. When I was going through the buying-a-kayak process, everything I read was by experts, and even when recounting their early experiences, the experts would color what they remembered with their current technical expertise. If someone reads my log file, they get the first day out, written with first day on the water knowledge. They get 1.5yr experience outings written with a 1.5yr degree of knowledge. I don't edit them as the time goes on. [though I have added addendum info when the report contained a blatant factual error, ie a bad fish ID]. 3. When summer comes along, and it is to hot to even go outside, much less exert oneself, I can read the log file and vicariously re-experience the outing.... Richard Walker Houston, TX http://www.neosoft.com/~rww/kayak_log.html *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Nov 15 1999 - 16:03:37 PST
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