Let’s say you live in New York City and you are taking your lovely folding kayak (because if you live in NYC, any kayak you own must be a folding kayak, right?) on the subway (because if you live in NYC, you take the subway everywhere) and you are wondering at which stop you should [...]

View Larger Map If you live in the Seattle area, Lake Sammamish is a great place to have a relaxing and not too challenging paddle (assuming the weather is otherwise nice, of course). If you want to make a day of it, there are some opportunities coming up for exploring the lake. On March 7 [...]

She’s got blisters on her fingers! For anyone who has been following Helen Skelton’s kayak trip down the Amazon river, I decided to collect links to the various Telegraph articles and other sites here. Helen Skelton is a presenter for the BBC’s Blue Peter, which is a children’s show geared towards adventure and discovery. Blue [...]

View Larger Map Heck yes, you can go kayaking anywhere – even Iowa, where the roads are so straight you can fall asleep while driving and still be in your lane an hour later. Not only that, but Iowa will show you beginning kayakers a good time for free. Here are the details: Ad-Express and [...]

Well, it’s the last few shopping days before Christmas 2009, so get ready for all the great things that come with the season: the end-of-year work crunch at your BDJ, daily trips to the airport, and of course, circling for hours looking for a parking spot at the mall when all you want is to [...]

I don’t know jack about train watching except that sometimes you can get a pretty good view of certain railways while sitting on the water in a kayak. There are many situations where a kayaks allows you unobstructed and/or uncrowded views of certain subjects of interest, and this includes the massively powerful trains that run [...]

Seeing a whale while kayaking is an extra special treat. But unless you are very knowledgeable, you are likely to be disappointed if your only purpose for heading out in your kayak for the day is to see whales. While whale watching tours almost always find whales, they also have much faster boats and communicate [...]

This is a book I’ve had on my reading list for a while now. Here’s a link to it on Amazon: I’ve read excerpts of it in the past and it was pretty interesting. It’s a true story about (and by) doctor Hannes Lindemann who crossed the Atlantic in 1956, completely unassisted, in a Klepper [...]