Conceiving The Idea

Thinking of why this "idea" has begun. A super long prossess of time consuming measures. Many thanks to my friends and family helping me in so many ways. The encouragement of so many has given me confidence in my outlandish goal, thanks! This blogging thing is new to me, sharring what I do period is new to me. This in itself will be a challenge with what I believe will be beneficial to others and myself. Trying to create an understanding of why and what is happening as challenge and joy come from my daily life on my boat.

The day after Christmas 2009. Maintaining the balance of putting my family first always, it is time to contemplate a worth objective for another adventure. Thoughts fill my mind. So many options and so much time. I need a activity that stimulates the mind and challenges me mentally. Maybe somthing besides another climbing trip. Water is nice, so is traveling! I always have wanted to sail around the world. What about a little smaller scale? that might work. What about a sailing kayak? What about a smaller area to cover? Innsbruck to Athens on a kayak with a sail a rough 3000 miles in 3 months, why not? Thirteen different country's, rivers, open coastline and island hopping all on my little 15 foot 6 inch inflatable Feathercraft Java Kayak with a 1.4 SQ meter Kayaksailor sail. Sounds like a great idea, plus I'll pretty much be starting from scratch as I have no idea what I am doing. Should be interesting enough!

Kayaking seems to be a nice way to travel. Small, affordable, a little risk management and alone. I am new to kayaking I really have no experiance, but no big deal I will learn. This idea comes from a long scource of memory's and thoughts. I remember when I was in Peru in 2005 on a climbing trip and I wanted to try floating a part of the Amazon on a raft I would build, but the climbing was too good. Another time in 2006 I was in the city of Ushuaia at the tip of South America. My thoughts were maybe I could find a raft or somthing that I could cross the beagle channel and do some exploring. Later that year I ended up spending some time in Linz Austria with some friends. Linz is right along the Danube river and again I thought, buy a raft float the river to the Black Sea. All these ideas were aborted with good reason I guess. Then this last summer my friend and I while fighting fire and bored out of are minds with dreams to be waited with thoughts, "lets paddle the inside passage", Seattle to Alaska. Again a no go (someday Zander.) I was although able to go on a short trip through the Gulf Islands off of Vancouver Island with my friend Nick. We had fun, learning and laughing. So pretty much a long list of ideas and talk with little action, pretty pathetic. I have learned a lot though the years of travel and climbing that failure is the motivation for learning, succeeding and having fun! Now though I am going with the IDEA. No more of this blabbering!