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Thank you everyone for an amazing farewell

11/10/2009

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This weekend dozens of people came to a farewell paddle and party in my honor. It was amazing to see so many folks turn up to wish me well, and drink beer and eat cake of course. In attendance at the days events were paddlers from all of the local paddling clubs; The Night Herons, San Diego Kayak Club, California Kayak Friends, Valley Wide Kayak Club, and even the GNN's. To all of you that attended and who have been sending so many kind words and encouragement my way, I can only start to say how much I appreciate it and how much I will miss everyone I've come to know through Aqua Adventures and the rest of the paddling community in Southern California. A special thanks are in order for everyone that baught a Portage to Portage trip T shirt or donated money outright to support the trip. Your generousity is going to help me acheive my goals with this trip and I will always be gratefull for that.

The paddle down to San Diego Bay went very well despite some shennagins involving a stowaway banana peel on the stern of my boat, placed there by my friend Duane with help from accomplances to distract me. I believe I was able to remove the offending fruit before any bad mojo was able to be transfered to my boat, but only time will tell.

My brand new Ikkuma 17 was put on display at the party so folks could see what I'd be paddling for the trip and more importantly so everyone could sign it. Folks were reluctant to mark up such a beautiful boat but after convincing Jen to go first in a short while the boat was filled with the names of dozens of friends that I will take with me on the trip. These signatures are the first of what I hope will be thousands of names from all of the people I meet along the way.

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Duane Strosaker link
11/13/2009 11:31:51 pm

If anything bad happens, you can blame me and the banana peel. By the way, every crossing trip I've done began with a banana, and nothing has ever gone wrong. I assume you're home by now and had a safe trip. We already miss you in SoCal.

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10/19/2013 09:33:05 am

I love this blog layout, which template is it?

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