About this time last year I was heading back from out big Easter trip to India. Easter is later this year but another big trip is planed.

We did east last year so this time we’re heading the west, to California.

Having never paddled in the US and only venturing as far as as New York and Boston before I’m not sure what to expect, though I’ve been promised:

…..Nam flashbacks……………we got rattlesnakes………Poison Oak is endemic through out California………we got bears……a month of misery you will not forget………..gun waving drug fabricating methamphetamine addict land owners ………lynching……….your burning cars being pushed into the river…………angry rattler………….

What could possibly go wrong? Anyway back in a couple of weeks.