Tuesday, August 19th
Wow! I’m sitting in front of the TV; watching the Olympics and eating a well earned bowl of cereal. I’m the last day of a long weekend for me here.
Last week I discovered there is a rock climbing club here in Wenzhou, China, so I went and checked the place [...]
I’ve been teaching my friend Angel how to roll. We had a few tries at a local lake in the past month but recently we got the okay and stored my kayaks in her neighborhood pool. We went there Monday and Wednesday morning for some practice. She got her roll Monday morning [...]
One of my friends, Martin, asked if I was ready to take a trip to ZeYa? I complained that it hasn’t rained much and there may not be any water but he replied that people always go there in June and July for rafting. We called Angel and asked if she would be [...]
February 13, 2008 - Another post left unpublished.
My job in China is now teaching English. Yesterday I taught an “English Corner” about kayaking. An English Corner is supposed to be giving the students a topic they are comfortable talking about but kayaking is brand new to all of them. It wasn’t a [...]
We’re now moving into the dry season here in Eastern China. Some how I had foolishly hoped the wet season here would be the same as back home in the Southeastern USA, the winter. Our wet season here happens to be more convenient for kayaking, the summer months is when we receive most [...]
This past Sunday, November 11, my pal Cooper invited me to go hiking with an outdoor club. We counted off to see how many people we had and I was last, #58. Hiking in these mass groups sounds crazy but when you’re dealing with this huge population, you get big groups and my last trip [...]
I had a great time on the water Saturday. Went to another place on the NanXi Jiang and had a great time. My sister-in-law dropped Liu Jian, Hang Hang and I off with my two boats. The proposed idea was for us to paddle and one swim along. The water was good, a little chilly [...]
Liu Jian and I are back for more! We again went to Nine Hills Lake for practice. This time my wife and her sister went along. Liu Jian is actually my wife’s, sister’s husband. Their little girl, Sarah, went as well. So we had three shuttle bunnies along to watch [...]
Been here 3 weeks and I finally got into my boats. They made the journey in the bottom of the United Airlines 747 with me. On the day I arrived my brother-in-law and nephew anxiously helped me unpack my Huck & Hoss. Between them I had packed about 200 pounds of gear, clothing, various sports [...]
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