I went to Chris' slide show presentation about his trip at the 1999 CanoeCopia in Madison, WI. Very interesting and inspirational. I was amazed that he navigated with an ordinary road map of Ireland. He used that very same map in his presentation. I am reading "Undaunted Courage" by Steve Ambrose right now, the true story of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Fantastic! -Bob Matter Hammond, Indiana Michael R Noyes wrote: > > As I just happen to have "On Celtic Tides" on my desk..... > The quote referred to is; > "A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned for he will be > going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea and we > do only be drowned now and again." > In his talk about solo paddling Chris indicated, though not is so > many words, that he lives by that motto. If he is the least bit > uncomfortable about going out that day he stays on the beach. Despite > my recent post about my Squam Lake escapade I agree with that idea. > (The truth be told, I was never uncomfortable about my situation on > Squam Lake.) > > Mike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Aug 01 2000 - 23:57:36 PDT
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