Re: [Paddlewise] Tour de West Coast

Thanks for the report Craig: I'd truly love to head States-side sometime 
too - meet up with you and Pam, hit my old haunts further south in So Cal, 
meet up with the gang down there, maybe yak around Northern Cal where the 
Tsunami boys hang, and then hit the Columbia River Bar on an ebb this time 
and do the inner Columbia with Dave who owns that fricking river.

I just watched Into the Wild this past weekend; haunting...I couldn't sleep 
for hours after. Christopher McCandless's story got me thinking about Alaska 
again. I loved some of the quotes associated with the movie and/or read by 
Christopher:

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea and the music in its roar;
I love not man the less, but Nature more."
-Byron

"...the sea's only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to 
feel strong. Now, I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's 
the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not 
necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least 
once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human 
conditions, facing blind, deaf stone alone, with nothing to help you but 
your own hands and your own head..."
-Bear Meat by Primo Levi

Thanks too Craig for your contributions to Sea Kayaker - enjoyed your last 
one - truly freightening - and frustrating. Run over by a power boat, 
indeed!!! Kid was real luky. I like the part where the mom says their kayak 
instructor taught them to lean away from dangerous boaters. So, when did 
that become an essential skill to teach state-side? Okay, it was a Canadian 
power-boater, I know.

Up late working on my missing paddler off Brooks article between migrains 
and multiple daily tasks - can't find time during the day - got a hot edict.

Take care Craig. You are a very special paddler in our community. Glad the 
boys n' gals down south got a gander at ya.

Doug Lloyd

 Craig siad (snip):


> Ok, not the entire west coast... and actually only bits of it. But I drove
> most of the West Coast of the USA in about a week and while I didn't get 
> to
> paddle in all the places I really wanted to, I did manage to accomplish a
> few of my goals.
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