Last weekend, we went with a group of friends out to Santa Cruz Island, just off the coast of Ventura, in the Channel Islands National Park. It was a great time. We camped on the island, explored the sea caves via kayak, and snorkeled. Such an amazing place, and one of america’s least visited National Parks. Gorgeous and fun.
Can’t wait to go back!
Read the full story »There’s nothing more important to us than the people in our lives. We love to spend time with family and friends.
New people, places, cultures and foods. We love to hit the road or skies and travel. We’ve make it a priority, and have had the good fortune to visit some amazing places.
Geoff is an avid kayaker, and Kim enjoys it too. We travel all over the state and occasional beyond in search of water to paddle.
We had our first sail on our impulse buy at a garage sale sail boat today. It was also Hazel’s first time sailing ever, and mine in quite a few years.
I learned to sail in elementary school, and sailed regularly with my family until college, but since then haven’t done as much. I’d go occasionally with my parents, but a boat was out of the question for a long time.
Last fall we saw a boat at a garage sale, stopped to take a look. It was too small for our …
This picture is nearly a month old, and Kim is quite a bit bigger now. We’ve had several nice showers thrown by generous friends, spent a lot of time getting things ready, and I’m starting to feel ready. We’ve taken the classes. We’ve read the books. I know, full and well, that there is no way to be prepared fully for the life altering things that are about to happen, but I’m confident we’ll do well. I can’t wait to meet my daughter. 10 days to the due date. Wow.
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A few weeks ago, Geno had the idea to run Mill Creek, near Fresno. When I was trying to find information about it, I kept seeing write-ups about a Mill Creek in N. California, and it looked good. I put it in the brain as “Paddle someday” run. Went and did Mill Creek near Fresno. there were some really fun rapids on that one, but not many and miles and miles of mank to deal with. I didn’t care for it much, though others in the group were more enthusiastic. …
Story and Pictures here »Last weekend I did the L’etape de California.
From the website:
“L’Étape du California provides serious recreational cyclists the opportunity to ride a complete stage of the Amgen Tour of California – and the most challenging stage of the 2011 race at that. Riders will cover the same route as the professionals on Stage 7 of the Amgen Tour of California, from the City of Claremont to the Mt Baldy Ski Area. The route is breathtaking in its beauty and difficulty, covering some of the most …
The North Fork of the Kaweah is an absolute gem of California paddling. This was my first trip down, and I love, love, loved it. 6.5 miles of classic class IV-V whitewater. We took our time, only Geno had done the run before, so we looked at a lot of rapids. There are a lot of rapids. We did a fair bit of read and run too.
Bill Pooley has rapid by rapid description of the run on his site,
http://c2.com/kaweah/log_northfork.html
but take my word for it, it’s just awesome. Absolutely a favorite …
