Joan Volin, on reading about Peter Osman's visit with Sandy Kramer, said something to the effect that wouldn't it be nice to have a PaddleWise get-together. More than nice. Let's do it!! Thusfar, I have hosted in the Big Apple at least 3 PaddleWisers from afar, Rich Mitchell, Casey Walker and Sandy. Rich came actually in pre-PaddleWise days having made contact via Wavelength and my newsletter. We had a memorable twilight paddle to the Statue of Liberty from the Downtown Boathouse with my wife and a friend; saw the sun go down behind the Statue as the city's skyline behind us burst into a million twinkling lights. Casey came last July; I arranged for him to paddle with the regular weekend morning free public program trip from the Boathouse to the Statue; I met him only briefly at the end of the trip. And Sandy and Son (who lives in the city) came down briefly to the Boathouse to do a bit of paddling in the immediate embayment and try out my K-Light. I have thoroughly enjoyed meeting these people and showing off our paddling opportunities...many people from afar don't think of NYC as a paddling destination...but it is, with 700 miles of shoreline and diverse destinations to paddle to from busy traffic and sightseeing to quiet marshes, 500 foot cliffs, waterfalls, numerous islands, etc. I volunteer Joan and myself to coordinate some form of get-together around Memorial Day when things warm up. There are plenty of locals on this PaddleWise list and people from other places might want to coordinate a trip to the city for vacation or business with such a get-together. Maybe we will do that sushi dinner paddle that we couldn't time right last year. :-) Perhaps other nodules of PaddleWisers might want to do something similar in their environs and perhaps out-of-towners might be able to coordinate trips there and join in. Of course, there is a risk. Being email and listserv pals is one thing. Actually meeting each other may be a shock. I'm reminded of that great New Yorker Magazine cartoon depicting two dogs. One is in front of a computer screen and keyboard. He turns to the other and says "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." :-) ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Tue Feb 08 2000 - 08:27:11 PST
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