Steve Cramer wrote: > Bingo! I was trying to (playfully) pre-empt a "if your boat fit in a bag, > you could take it with you" response. Mark Z and Jackie mentioned the > FedEx-you-a-boat-in-a-bag services, which I had forgotten about. That would have been much too obvious a response by me and therefore I didn't give it figuring some other people would. :-) I think actually for a Mayan holiday of the nature you seem to be planning, you would probably want to paddle only a few times for a few hours and a rental SOT would have been a fine vessel for that operating in its own element, i.e. warm. > > Anyway, what would Ralph know about Mexico? He's from Puerto Rico. :) > If you meet anybody named Bubba, though, be sure he'll know about paddling > in GA, NC, and TN. Actually I'm of Cuban descent. But that's okay. Jose Marti who led the Cuban revolution against Spain in the 1890s (and whose poem is immortalized in the words of the one Cuban song most people know, Guantamera") once said that Cuba and Puerto Rico are two wings of the same bird. ralph > > *************************************************************************** > 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/ > *************************************************************************** -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Dec 23 1999 - 09:08:37 PST
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