Category: kayaking

My Mayan Culture Fixation–part 2 (2 trips to Sian Ka’an that didn’t turn out quite as planned)

July 31, 2020

In late winter of 1992 an old friend invited me to join her and two other women on a week-long trip down the Quintana Roo coast to the Biosphere called Sian Ka’an, or “origin of the sky”, by the Mayans. In 1986 it was designated a Biosphere and in 1987 a World Heritage Site.  I … More My Mayan Culture Fixation–part 2 (2 trips to Sian Ka’an that didn’t turn out quite as planned)

Canoeing the northern wilderness at 72: it’s never too late for life lessons

September 21, 2018

This summer I agreed to go on a six day, five night canoe trip into the Quetico National Park in Ontario, CA, in early September.  It is just across the border from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in northern Minnesota, with a similar landscape of lakes, rivers, and islands, with portages connecting them … More Canoeing the northern wilderness at 72: it’s never too late for life lessons