One Couple’s Quest for Fun Kayaking, Cool Bike Trails and a Great Cup of Coffee
We’ve been visiting Burkesville KY since 2019. The weekend event is named River Festivus and it’s been improving each year we visit. We may have never attended this festival and race had it not been for the points competition in 2019 that had us traveling all around Kentucky and Ohio. The Mighty Cumberland River Run…
We always look forward to this event. We first started going in 2019 when it was part of a racing point series. We would see everyone we’d made friends with at the other races. The race itself is pretty high-level. The boat classes are packed with excellent paddlers. The event is very organized with a…
Yes, a Festivus for the rest of us We’re really growing fond of Kentucky. The beautiful country side, the rolling hills and a number of rivers and lakes that we’ve enjoyed paddling. And to get to most places that are worth going to, it’s mostly two-lane winding roads. Such is a risk-reward for traveling to…
We look forward to this event each year. It’s a community event for Cincinnati raising funds for outdoors adventures for city kids. There are food trucks, live music, and vendors. It’s a pretty big deal. There are two groups that paddle this event. The racers, like us, and the leisure paddlers. This year there were…
We look forward to this race every year in Iowa City, Iowa. It’s a challenging event-over 9 miles downstream. The river can be very different year to year. We also look forward to seeing family living in the Iowa City area. Sometimes they even come out to cheer us on! We left Friday and found…
Chattanooga Tennessee is an eight hour drive for us. That’s a little far for a race but this one looked particular interesting. So we thought we’d give it a try. The race was on Saturday so we headed out early Friday morning. Our first stop was one of our favorites, Joe Sippers in Effingham IL….
The South Dakota schedule worked out perfectly, so on our way back we stopped at Clear Lake Iowa to do the Paddlefest. This was the second time we’d done this race. Clear Lake (the lake) 3600 acres and is surrounded by Clear Lake (the town). The first time we did this race it was blowing…