Tyrone Slothrop
I can cook for six people with my eyes closed and one hand tied behind my back.
But I’ve totally forgotten how to cook for just one person.
*borps*
Good morning from sunny #Slovenia!
Had a quiet night in the tent, got woken up by a cuckoo.
I’ll have to move my tent again - accidentally set it up next to where the group tent / social hub of the kayak school will be. I’m happy to chat with people, but I don’t need *that* much social life.
I’m camped next to a couple with a toddler, and I’ll say that small kids waking up early in the morning are totally fine for me, as long as I’m not the one who’s supposed to look after them 🤗
MOTD
„ Ich sitze still und lasse mich bescheinen
und ruh von meinem Vaterlande aus.“
- Kurt Tucholsky, Park Monceau
https://www.zgedichte.de/kurt-tucholsky/park-monceau.html
My body tells me it needs some rest. My mind is a hamster running in a little wheel, shouting “when do we go out on the water? When, when, when?”
So I’m making a compromise: another paddler is doing a short, playful run, and I’m joining him.
Ok, this was a long-ish play run. Very chill.
The Soča river is stunningly beautiful, as always. So good to be here.
I’ve booked a “play the river” course for the week, where we’ll be practicing pirouettes, rock splats and the like.
It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for years- but it will be exhausting 😅
Friends.
If you play djembe
And you ever go camping
DO NOT BRING THE FUCKING DJEMBE
Today is break day on the kayak course. The road out from the campground is blocked for resurfacing, and there’s thunderstorms predicted.
We’d happily paddle in the rain, since we get wet anyway, but lightning strikes are a risk when you’re the highest thing on a flat water surface.
Yesterday’s run was super nice, and humbling: we’re training doing basic eddy maneuvers in exactly the wrong ways.
Every whitewater kayaker learns: when you exit the eddy, raise the upper edge. If you’re in danger of tipping over, support yourself with the paddle.
We practice keeping the boat flat, lowering the upper edge (the thing you must normally not do, ever), and rather tip and roll than support 😬
The goal is to do stern squirts like this
Kayak Stern Squirt
42 liters of rain predicted over next 24h. Yeesh.
At least there’ll be more water in the river, which is running a bit low.
phoenix🐧🏕🏞🚀🍝@slothrop 42 liter brain is a lot for a monday 🤭