2012 Paddling Season Has Begun

Well ... it's been a while since I posted last. Not much was going on as I was getting stuff ready to go on my first paddling trip of the season in between doing some studio photo shoots.

This sums up my roadtrip in a nutshell:

two countries ... one province ... six states .... almost 4000km (2500 miles)

five days of amazing paddling with great friend ... all y'all know who you are

trip leader on the Little in the Smokies with ten of my Canadian friends.

two swims ... one on the Little ... one on the Tellico

lots of warm sunshine ... face burn

jealous of a twelve year old running the shit including Bald River Falls http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7056/6836976850_6cf286e081_b.jpg

lots of great photos taken ... see http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmnypny/collections/72157629221702696/

nice comfy bed to sleep in thanks to Karen and Jeff

lots of great southern BBQ ... have not got on the scale yet :(

onsite tech support call for wireless printer problem in North Carolina

Canoe Movie 2 Premier night in Knoxville

long ass eighteen hour day driving almost 1600km (1000 miles) in one day including a boat delivery for Taylor in WV

scoring a 60 ouncer of Bacardis at the duty free for twenty bucks

making it to the Nexus line at the boarder with four minutes to spare before it closed for the night and just getting waved through

waiting another 257 days to do it again for ALF 2013

waking up in your own bed and realizing you dont have to go to work .... pricessless

Come on March ... get here please

Not much has happened over the last month or so.

It's been a crazy stupid weather winter with hardly any snow.

My work has been super crazy busy for me ... in one way that is good as it keeps me from going insane waiting for my 2012 paddling season to start.

I am in the process of getting all the pre-planning / gear check done for me plus working on the contact list for ALF 2012 donw in Tennessee.

Holy crap xmas and new years has come and gone

Dang It!

I had a xcellent xmas with the fam jam.

I was supposed to go on a east coast work trip during new years only to have a last minute cancellation due to the flu running around on the remote end.

So I ended up spending new years eve day at my sisters place ripping out her kitchen base cabinets while my brother-in-law fixed all the drafts. I thought it was going to be a two day job but thanks to the cabinets not being screwed together and the counter top in the same way ... it ended up being a one day job.

I ended going home after that and spent new years eve having a few drinks and watching movies.

I spent the next three days of that pretty much sleeping as I felt like total crap.

Work has been crazy busy and I am going thru paddling with drawls.

Come on march get here

Life is going by to quick

I have still been busy over the last few weekends working as the Troll in my sisters basement re-routing electrical pathways and the hot water heater.

I managed to squeeze in a couple of photo shoots in between the chaos of work and trying to get stuff down around my own house.

I am looking forward to some downtime during the xmas holidays to kick back and relax.

I hope to be able to get some outdoor winter landscape photography down ... but I need snow for that.

It's been raining alot ... upside is great for driving in but sucks for the skiers out there.