The Ignorant Traveler   

              

If I were you I'd go back to sleep...

 

 

 

Greetings from 
the Garden State

Churchyard Boys waving to NJ Turnpike traffic from the top of Snake Hill, Secaucus Meadowlands, NJ.

King Kayak-Canoo -- Waterman Extraordinaire

 

August, 2006: The opportunity to kayak the mighty Hudson, America's "First River," was not to be missed.. [more]

 

Paperbacknovel.com Newsletter Travels the World

Distribution of paperbacknovel.com newsletter around the world .. [more]

Del Mar, California

God damned nice place. Ocean, trains, beach, fancy dancy shops, surfers, and .. [more]

Drinking-Water Kayaking

 

For the past two decades, nearly, the fate of the #3 reservoir in the Jersey City Heights has been in the balance; undecided. Delaware kayaker Chuckie I "Tuna" Turner, and Polish Navy (Delaware Division) Commodore Zachow join Rich Sheppard in kayaking the rez and hiking the tops of the surrounding walls.. [more]

Rocks

It's not Mars, it's a corner of New York City. [more]

 

Train Video Playlist


American Canoo Alliance Founded  

Jersey City, NJ, April 2003 - A disparate confederation of annual Delaware River canooists today formalized their affiliation through the founding of the American Canoo Alliance (ACA). The Jersey City-based ACA will promote the use of hard-shell, or “hardbody” watercraft for river passages, strongly disdaining inflatable “waphts,” “wubber tubies,” or [more]

 

Racy Mom Spurs Whaft Controversy  

Point Jarvis, NY – May, 2003 – It was a photo that changed 25 years of tradition and tore asunder lifelong friends. [more]

Canooists, Waphties in Tenuous Boat Truce;
New Lodging Rift Looms

 

June 3, 2006, Delaware River - Following several years of acrimony and name-calling among Canooists and Waphties, the Churchyard Boys enjoyed a tenuous truce during Canoo Weekend, 2006 [more]

Cocoa Beach, Florida & the 
Kennedy Space Center

Let me tell you, this f'n place is huge; like twice the size of Staten Island. The map they gave me was so misleading. The morning of the first class, I got to a guard gate 10 minutes before the course was to start, thinking I'm like 5 minutes away from the training building, and the guard tells me I'm 18 miles away. Holly shit... [more]

Miami Beach

Redheads and football fever. [more]  

Greetings from
Governor's Island

 

June, 2006: Not too many people are aware you can take a free ferry to Governor's Island, which leaves from right next door to the much better known and widely used Staten Island Ferry. [more]

Randall's Island:
Mysteries Revealed

 

June, 2006: Of all of New York City's islands, Randall's Island remains the most mysterious. Tucked beneath the Triboro bridge.. [more]

Delaware River, NY 

Deli Girls join Church- yard Boys at  their 24th
annual Delaware River run. [more]

  

New SI Ferryboat SS Molinari 

 

January 26, 2004 -- It is a GEORGEOUS boat. Four stories high. It’s got a Hurricane deck !! [more]

Gunning It in Wallkill, NY

Boating in Connecticut

In pursuit of the elusive fish off the coast of Connecticut. [more]

A trip through the Wallkill, NY woods with AK-47 in hand.

See also: 
Shootin' in Upstate NY, 
Summer 2001

St. Louis in the Summertime

Nothing like being in St. Louis in the summertime... picture yourself in the ugliest part of Bayonne New Jersey, with the temperature at 95 degrees and the humidity at 100 percent...[more]

Delaware River, NY - 2000 & 2001

Churchyard Boys at Annual Delaware River Canoo Trip put-in, Summer, 2001 -- NCA Imposes Sanctions
[more]

 

Churchyard Boys at Annual Delaware River Canoo Trip put-in, June 2, 2000 [more]