Manhattan Kayak Company Blogs

by Erik Olsen on


Good to see some of my
favorite folks getting into the blogosphere.

Right down at Chelsea Piers here in the city is a little
rickety storefront wherein is housed the Manhattan Kayak Company.
Run by the ever enthusiastic Eric Stiller, the company conducts kayaking tours around the New York waterfront that,
when the season is warm, are must-do trips for Manhattan visitors and residents alike. The blog provides a great way to see what the company is up to and to keep
yourself aware of when the season kicks off this year (soon, I’m told).

I did a podcast with Eric a
while back, too which might be worth a listen. Eric is the author of the wonderful book Keep Australia on Your Left, a
story about his epic effort some years ago to paddle around the continent of Australia.

Africa Travel: Senegal

by Adrienne Wilson on

Sports seem to be a pretty big deal in Senegal, a west African country bordering the North Atlantic Ocean.
Whether you’re soaking in the sights from an intense match of the country’s traditional wrestling called
"Laamb" in Wolof, on the hunt for warthog during hunting season or sport fishing off the coast, the active
traveler will not be without options. From May to December sport fishing
enthusiasts have the opportunity to choose from deep sea fishing, long line fishing, fly casting and night fishing
to name only a few. Trips for activities can be organized at local fishing centers or hotels an additional info can be
found by clicking here. If you prefer the land over water relive the big Lisboa-Dakar
race blow-by-blow at the official site found here. 

Paddling Hawaii

by Erik Olsen on

We’re getting into
paddling season again, so I thought I’d post this nice article on paddling in Hawaii from the LA
Times (via the Seattle Times). The writer heads to Na Pali off the coasts of the island of Kauai, an adventure that
was rated number 2 on the list of America’s top 100 adventure treks by National Geographic Adventure.

That put the trip
just below the trip of a lifetime we’ve blogged about here, and that Divester’s Willy Volk actually
did, that is, rafting the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.

Gadling on AOL Travel

by Erik Olsen on

Some of you may have noticed, perhaps because you came
here from there, but we here at Gadling.com have done a couple of helpful travel pieces this week for the good folks at
AOL.com. We worked our brains over how best to satisfy the AOL audience as Spring
approacheth and people are making plans. And we settled on seven ideas for seven days.

We hoped to cover wide enough variety of trips to satisfy just about everybody, and so did
write ups on the best secret places to go in Mexico and Hawaii, as well as both East and West Coast Trips (Even through I’m from the West Coast, Neil
lives there now in So Cal, so he handled the West. And since I live in New
York, I took on the East Coast). Then there was a piece on Family Spring Breaks, and one on Spring Ski Slopes. And finally, last but by no means least, a
piece by Adrienne on Caribbean Trips. Anyway, if you came
to Gadling.com from these pieces, then welcome! Bookmark us and come back often. If you are a Gadling.com regular or
occasional visitor, go check out these pieces, maybe they’ll give you some inspiration to do some traveling.

Spring Break 2006

DeLaVergne Dies

by Erik Olsen on

Daniel DeLaVergne, the well-known, nay, legendary kayaker died Wednesday morning after being struck by a train. 
Awful, awful news. The 28-year-old paddler was hit near Asheville, North Carolina. He was the co-founder of Penstock
Productions, producer of Lunch Video Magazine (LVM) series and Kayak Journal.
There is a rumor that he was scouting filming locations when the train hit him. Yuck.