BRAVO FOR BOOTING “ONE DAY AT A TIME” I read the Source for its content on Central Oregon activities and it works for me. Sure, there’s lots of ads, but so what! Sure, the Events pages’ print is too small, but so what. Sure, the Source will never be like the Bulletin but so what! What […]
Sailing
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I’ve Never…Gone Sailing
Harnessing the wind with the Hobie sailing kayak
As a child, I didn’t spend much time on boats. In fact, if you don’t count rides at Disneyland (e.g. Pirates of the Caribbean—before Johnny Depp made it sexy), I have been on a boat maybe five times in my entire life. Few enough, at least, that each experience can be prefaced by, “That one […]
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Smooth Sailing
Take a dip at Elk Lake
I have fond memories of sailing on Elk Lake as a child. Scratchy red life jacket up to my chin, the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy For the Devil” blaring from a battery operated cassette player on the deck of the boat, wind blowing in my hair, learning the meaning of the phrase “Come about” the hard […]