Comments for KayakVagabond http://www.gregstamer.com the website of Greg Stamer Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:14:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 Comment on Lost in Iceland by Greg http://www.gregstamer.com/2008/10/13/lost-in-iceland#comment-263 Greg Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:27:21 +0000 http://www.gregstamer.com/2008/10/13/lost-in-iceland#comment-263 Mari, thanks for your comments. I also wish you the best of luck. Major life changes feel like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. That said, major change requires risk! Mari, thanks for your comments. I also wish you the best of luck. Major life changes feel like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. That said, major change requires risk!

]]> Comment on Gothenburg, Sweden by Greg http://www.gregstamer.com/2008/10/27/gothenburg-sweden#comment-262 Greg Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:19:05 +0000 http://www.gregstamer.com/2008/10/27/gothenburg-sweden#comment-262 Cooldoctor, Happy Holidays and thanks for the comment! I recently paddling amongst alligators and manatees with Justine and Berry when they were in Florida last month. We didn't talk about a Greenland kayaking CD, but I will certainly consider it! Cooldoctor, Happy Holidays and thanks for the comment! I recently paddling amongst alligators and manatees with Justine and Berry when they were in Florida last month. We didn’t talk about a Greenland kayaking CD, but I will certainly consider it!

]]> Comment on Gothenburg, Sweden by cooldoctor1 http://www.gregstamer.com/2008/10/27/gothenburg-sweden#comment-261 cooldoctor1 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:49:21 +0000 http://www.gregstamer.com/2008/10/27/gothenburg-sweden#comment-261 Wow, Greg, you have really made some true accomplishments in 2007-2008. Kudos to you and your great photographs. NOw that Justine has completed TITS 4, she might have some free time to do an instructional video with you on Greenland kayaking and technique. As well as some of the native Greenland expedition advice and experiences you have had, it's be a crack DVD-- a must have DVD--for all of us landlocked sea kayakers. Just a nudge, given that it's the New Year and all. Happy paddling. CD1 in Illinois. Wow, Greg, you have really made some true accomplishments in 2007-2008. Kudos to you and your great photographs. NOw that Justine has completed TITS 4, she might have some free time to do an instructional video with you on Greenland kayaking and technique. As well as some of the native Greenland expedition advice and experiences you have had, it’s be a crack DVD– a must have DVD–for all of us landlocked sea kayakers. Just a nudge, given that it’s the New Year and all. Happy paddling. CD1 in Illinois.

]]> Comment on Lost in Iceland by mari http://www.gregstamer.com/2008/10/13/lost-in-iceland#comment-260 mari Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:07:45 +0000 http://www.gregstamer.com/2008/10/13/lost-in-iceland#comment-260 Thank you for your article Lost in Island. I enjoyed reading a different trip article. How familiar a story: I got divorced 7 years ago, paddled the Inside Passage one year ago with my (after trip ex)boyfriend and left my career as project manager/consultant in IT business 6 months ago to become an entrepreneur. Nowadays I am restoring old wooden windows for my living. I do not regret any of the decisions I have made. I am strongly sharing your attitude to ”relationship stuff” and life – to live fully. I wish I had similar boldness to write about our trip but I still cannot. I wish you all the best with the brave decicions of your life. Thank you for your article Lost in Island. I enjoyed reading a different trip article. How familiar a story: I got divorced 7 years ago, paddled the Inside Passage one year ago with my (after trip ex)boyfriend and left my career as project manager/consultant in IT business 6 months ago to become an entrepreneur. Nowadays I am restoring old wooden windows for my living. I do not regret any of the decisions I have made.

I am strongly sharing your attitude to ”relationship stuff” and life – to live fully. I wish I had similar boldness to write about our trip but I still cannot.

I wish you all the best with the brave decicions of your life.

]]> Comment on Gothenburg, Sweden by Greg http://www.gregstamer.com/2008/10/27/gothenburg-sweden#comment-259 Greg Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:43:24 +0000 http://www.gregstamer.com/2008/10/27/gothenburg-sweden#comment-259 Peter, thanks for your comments. I enjoyed meeting you and being part of your circle of friends in Sweden! I look forward to visiting Sweden again. Peter, thanks for your comments. I enjoyed meeting you and being part of your circle of friends in Sweden! I look forward to visiting Sweden again.

]]> Comment on Lost in Iceland by Greg http://www.gregstamer.com/2008/10/13/lost-in-iceland#comment-258 Greg Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:31:30 +0000 http://www.gregstamer.com/2008/10/13/lost-in-iceland#comment-258 Thanks everyone for the comments! Regarding the relationship stuff, first I feel that you are better off if you don't depend on anyone else for your own happiness (that is your own responsibility), and two, you have a "keeper" if you find someone who somehow makes you become a better person and makes the day-to-day life a little more fun. I'm looking at a few trips -- a long crossing from Key West to the Dry Tortugas; possibility a trip across the gulf stream to the Bahamas and to skip from one Caribbean island to the next; and/or maybe a through-hike of the AT. I'm currently recovering from knee surgery. If anything, it strikes home to me that you can't wait forever to begin fulfilling your dreams, as someday you will be too frail to undertake them (but you can always dream another dream). I'd rather live with mistakes (lost fortunes, divorce, etc) than with regrets of not having tried to live fully. Thanks everyone for the comments! Regarding the relationship stuff, first I feel that you are better off if you don’t depend on anyone else for your own happiness (that is your own responsibility), and two, you have a “keeper” if you find someone who somehow makes you become a better person and makes the day-to-day life a little more fun.

I’m looking at a few trips — a long crossing from Key West to the Dry Tortugas; possibility a trip across the gulf stream to the Bahamas and to skip from one Caribbean island to the next; and/or maybe a through-hike of the AT.

I’m currently recovering from knee surgery. If anything, it strikes home to me that you can’t wait forever to begin fulfilling your dreams, as someday you will be too frail to undertake them (but you can always dream another dream). I’d rather live with mistakes (lost fortunes, divorce, etc) than with regrets of not having tried to live fully.

]]> Comment on Lost in Iceland by Leigh Blazic http://www.gregstamer.com/2008/10/13/lost-in-iceland#comment-257 Leigh Blazic Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:10:22 +0000 http://www.gregstamer.com/2008/10/13/lost-in-iceland#comment-257 "but that's a story for another day..." Am waiting for that story! Have you settled in or are you planning another trip? Don't see any events for December or beyond posted to the site. “but that’s a story for another day…”
Am waiting for that story! Have you settled in or are you planning another trip? Don’t see any events for December or beyond posted to the site.

]]> Comment on Lost in Iceland by keith http://www.gregstamer.com/2008/10/13/lost-in-iceland#comment-250 keith Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:54:09 +0000 http://www.gregstamer.com/2008/10/13/lost-in-iceland#comment-250 Greg, I just read your article in Sea Kayaker, I don't have a subscription at the moment, so I ordered the one issue. Great writing, and I really enjoyed your description of events. I admire your willingness to be upfront about your relationships. Sometimes I wonder if we as a society tend to think that by finding someone who shares our interests and passions that everything will work out. But in the end when you come home and the adventure is over you still have to live together and it is still a relationship. And BTW I know what you mean about asking for time off to be denied. I've been trying to negotiate a summer off for a trip round Superior since last year. Not sure when it will happen, but at some point I may have to just take the risk and do it. Sometimes there is no "later", or when "when I retire". This was one of the best articles I've read in SK in a long time. Keith Greg,

I just read your article in Sea Kayaker, I don’t have a subscription at the moment, so I ordered the one issue. Great writing, and I really enjoyed your description of events. I admire your willingness to be upfront about your relationships. Sometimes I wonder if we as a society tend to think that by finding someone who shares our interests and passions that everything will work out. But in the end when you come home and the adventure is over you still have to live together and it is still a relationship.

And BTW I know what you mean about asking for time off to be denied. I’ve been trying to negotiate a summer off for a trip round Superior since last year. Not sure when it will happen, but at some point I may have to just take the risk and do it. Sometimes there is no “later”, or when “when I retire”.

This was one of the best articles I’ve read in SK in a long time.

Keith

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