hello world: an idea begins to outgrow its britches

At the 2004/2005 confluence, we decided to start keeping a journal of our paddling trips. It was a last minute decision -- we picked up a spiral bound notebook in Brooklyn, MS, on our way to the put-in for a week-long trip. The notebook is filling up quickly. Between the multi-day canoe trips and the kayak day trips, I doubt we have enough paper to finish out the year.

Digital does not replace analog. The notebook and its successors will retain the place of honor in the dry box. They make dry bags for laptops, but that corruption has no place in the wilderness we seek. The laptop can wait for me at home. Entries here will be recasts of the on-river and post-trip journal entries. Digital can share the joys of analog, so that others can live vicariously through our adventures.

Of course, if you enjoy adventuring vicariously through my words, a donation could go a long way toward making the word job obsolete. For me, anyway.