The Eisenhower Canal, at last!
The Eisenhower Expressway (left) and the Eisenhower Canal (right).For years, the Illinois Department of Transportation has been threatening to widen the Eisenhower Expressway (I290), and local residents have been arguing that it would be better to extend public transportation.…
read moreWater access and guerilla landings
Adam Goss, of Spirit of Space, talks with Alec about paddling in Chicago.Yesterday, we agreed to participate in a video for a firm that’s developing a plan for Chicago’s Northerly Island.…
read moreReflections on our 20,000th blog visit
The sea kayaking world isn’t that big. The serious sea kayaking world is even smaller. And the geeky, read-about-it-when-you-aren’t-doing-it sea kayaking world? Smaller still. And yet, today we achieved a small milestone in that small world: our 20,000th visit.…
read moreIn search of the perfect paddling shoe
Lately we’ve enjoyed walking into paddle shops and expos and saying, “Wow! We don’t really need anything.” Then we browse anyway, admiring new versions of familiar items and assorted new items that we kind of want but don’t really need. …
read moreGreat times at the Great Lakes Sea Kayak Symposium
We just returned from the 26th annual Great Lakes Sea Kayak Symposium (GLSKS) in Grand Marais, Michigan–a tiny town on the southern shore of Lake Superior. This is the oldest of the Great Lakes symposia, and it has a storied past.…
read moreLittle boats for little people
Sharon in her Avocet LV. With nothing in the front or back hatches, it sits nicely in the water.When we began paddling seven years ago, there weren’t many serious sea kayaks for seriously small paddlers.…
read moreLooking backward, looking forward
Some of our favorite Maryland students: Fabian, Betty Lou and Alicia.One of the pleasures of coaching is working with students who might never cross paths anywhere else. While we were at Adventure Crafters, one class included a neuroscientist, a truck driver, a leadership consultant, an at-home mom, a merchant marine engineer, a title company owner and a manager of mergers and acquisitions.…
read moreLake Michigan marine life
A couple of days ago, while paddling the heavy industrial area in northwest Indiana, we came across a piece of driftwood that turned out to be a fairly large snapping turtle.…
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