Alrightly VfTT paddlers, spent a mighty good time at Paddlesport, Met up with Daxs on Saturday mid morning and had fun running around, looking at gear and boats. Picking up free schwag since I had no intention on buying anything major. Scored a free Subaru hat, water bottle, sunscreen, tons of magazines on paddling, stickers, posters... I felt like the proverbial kid in a candy store. Talked to the folks at Thule, one of the project managers is going to send me the parts I need for my 589 velo vise gratis which is awesome (ya Thule!
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After finding a nice Indian buffet, we both left. Sunday, after finding out my friend's wife was sick and he wasn't going, I decided to head back since my ticket is good for the whole weekend and I thought I'd love to hear the speakers, so today's journey was mostly to go see the speakers.
Caught Derek Hutchinson (P&H, noted british Kayaker) give a awesome and hilarious talk on crossing the North Sea between Scotland and Belgium. A really interested first crossing in a very treacherous weather that was funny (you know that british sense of humor and all that).
Then after that saw Rob Center and Kay Henry from the Northern Forest Canoe Trail which is a 740 mile canoe/kayak trail from Old Forge, NY to Fort Kent, ME. A pretty neat slide show of the water trail connecting our northern forests.
Then I actually went and bought the Hudson River Water Trail guide since it was at a discount and they had one left, did some more free shopping, trying to see anything that I missed from saturday before leaving. Now I have stuff to read for the next few weeks..
Jay
