Coasting

We went to a free presentation last night at REI, a description of three young kayakers' trip around the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, a five hundred mile journey. Two of the trip members, a couple, were giving the slide show, and were awfully fresh and strong-looking. She also teaches yoga, and they work in a kayak shop up in the San Juans. The kayak trip looked cold and strenuous at times, but they said they weren't plagued with bugs, and no bears came near enough to do any harm. They didn't suffer any heavy weather, which would have screwed them over as they passed by many stretches of rocky shoreline. They raised money for an environmental organization whilst paddling. Good luck on getting any environmental action up in the Last Frontier, where building permits are for sissies and every soccer mom can take down a moose with her bare hands and a fingernail file.