It has been quite a cool and rainy season here in Illinois this summer. It’s been fairly disappointing to have cancelled 2 or 3 planned trips on the water due to thunderstorms. It seemed even those trips where weather was ideal, once we got on the water, the skies opened up and it began to [...]
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Spring Season Launch - Kayaking at Busse Woods
Well, it certainly was a busy Spring. Between coming back to Illinois from Arizona, replacing our floors, unpacking, a photo shoot in Texarkana, TX, unpacking more, building and planting our raised bed garden and adding our rain collection barrel, I was actually able to pull off a Spring Kayak to launch the season. What a [...]
Navy Pier Fireworks from the kayak (So Long Midwest!)
What better way to end our season in the Midwest than a superb paddle along the Chicago lakefront, with its stunning nighttime skyline and to Navy Pier with a fantastic ‘in-your-face’ fireworks show?! All the while enjoying the company of a really spectacular group of people. I would like to thank the Hispanic community for [...]
Ottawa, IL (Day 2): Paddling the Fox and Illinois Rivers
This was a Meetup.Com organized event of a paddle Chad had organized, with a little help from me, a couple of weeks ago. The discovery of this route was motivated by the lack of desire to pay put-in or take-out fees to the greedy land and business owners along the Fox and Illinois Rivers…mostly the [...]
Stop Blagojevich From Closing Our State Parks!
After a very nice day hiking some miles in Starved Rock State Park, it was really saddening to receive this news in my email.
The following Illinois State Parks will close effective Nov. 1:
Castle Rock State Park, Oregon
Lowden State Park, Oregon
Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park, Sheffield
Illini State Park, Marseilles
Channahon Parkway State Park, Channahon
Gebhard Woods State Park, [...]
