Objects of Desire

[hermes2015]

I don't think I will ever grow up.

[Dave]

I don't think I will ever grow up.

I don't think people with truly adaptive intelligemce ever do!

[hermes2015]

[Dave]

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I seem to remember a sort of folded card  version of that, a shape that tesnsformed into other shapes. But clever and attractive.

The true desire may be to achieve the conception and construction of such devices oneself!

The video lead to this one

https://youtu.be/xp-PENvptu0

I worked it out, except for the "'lock," quite early but, again, very clever in its conception.

[Rift Zone]

This thing here ranks as one of my greatest desires:




^A Prijon Kodiak...   The one pictured above was mine.   I had it delivered to the Headwaters Hostel, Lake Itasca, Headwaters of the Mississippi River.   I packed it up and paddled down the river a ways...



^The Mississippi River starts out as a creek.     


It's more like a river further downstream:





I finally got it back to California, after getting snowed on on the Mississippi.    It gave me a chance to get around a local reservoir with my hatch covers off so I could pick up all the trash along the shore.   I filled that 17' kayak up 3 times getting it all, with the help of my escorts, of course (moms was pissed!  lol).




And then my baby got flambeed.   That was the end of that love affair.    Been wanting to replace her ever since.    Probably have to do that soon.

[Bad Penny II]

This thing here ranks as one of my greatest desires:

I saw the pic of the boat and the river and thought it wasn't a good match.
Prijons are made of a more brittle plastic than some?
I didn't expect it to spontaneously combust though, it hasn't up come in the reviews I've read.

[Dragonia]

Holy crap, RZ, what happened?

[Dragonia]

^
I seem to remember a sort of folded card  version of that, a shape that tesnsformed into other shapes. But clever and attractive.

The true desire may be to achieve the conception and construction of such devices oneself!

The video lead to this one

https://youtu.be/xp-PENvptu0

I worked it out, except for the "'lock," quite early but, again, very clever in its conception.

I love giving puzzles like this as gifts, and these boxes, and Hermes' stars are really neat... they are now on my list! 

[Rift Zone]

Yea, Bad Penny, a 17' sea kayak is not exactly the best choice for rivers, but I had seen bigger waters in similar craft before, and I handle it well, so whatever...  Besides, lots of slack water on the Mississippi, and sea kayaks rule for that.   

On the contrary! -the Prijon craft have the best material available in a kayak.  it's tough as nails and has much more structual integrity than other plastic craft  no flex=better performance...  I could sand on the deck of both of mine without depressing much at all.   the material weighs a bit more than usual, making for a slightly heavier craft, but small price to pay, there is nothing better, it's the only craft I'd take on an expedition. 

Dragonia, it was stored in a shipping container owned by the county parks department.   They got tired of pulling the pota-potty out of the lake when vandals dumped it in the water, so they bolted the pota-potty to the shipping container.   In that container, they had built a wooden platform up high to hold a little aluminum skiff/dinghy...   Well, around the 4th of July when fireworks are a big thing in America, vandals terrorized the park with m80s in paint cans, car burn-out doughnuts, and they torched the porta-potty.   The platform for the skiff caught on one end and flambeed my kayak as it burned through. 


Ever paddle through a lawn?    In the fall, when I was there, there is wild rice all over the place!   Most of the Headwaters area is marsh land where wild rice thrives, and all sorts of other plants, including floating ones.    I often could not see the water at all, only a sea of floating and waving green.    Anyway, I can share of taste of it with you...    This was within one linear mile of the official headwaters of the river.  I figured out the "grasses" I was paddling through was wild rice just after I shot that.   

[Bad Penny II]

no flex=better performance... 

=brittle.

[Rift Zone]

no flex=better performance... 

=brittle.

lol   Not necessarily.   The molecular structure bonds to friends in more places than typical materials, making for better structural integrity; it's still a flexible plastic, however.   Only time you need to worry about "brittle" is when you freeze it, and even then it performs better than most.

people have lost them off their cars doing 70~80 mph; it's rarely catastrophic, usually only a few scratches to show for it!    -brittle?  no so much.  Not to mention you cant bring brittle on an expedition style adventure...   You need something you can bounce off rocks without thinking twice about it...   Prijon delivers.

[hermes2015]

This thing here ranks as one of my greatest desires:




^A Prijon Kodiak...   The one pictured above was mine.   I had it delivered to the Headwaters Hostel, Lake Itasca, Headwaters of the Mississippi River.   I packed it up and paddled down the river a ways...



^The Mississippi River starts out as a creek.     


It's more like a river further downstream:





I finally got it back to California, after getting snowed on on the Mississippi.    It gave me a chance to get around a local reservoir with my hatch covers off so I could pick up all the trash along the shore.   I filled that 17' kayak up 3 times getting it all, with the help of my escorts, of course (moms was pissed!  lol).




And then my baby got flambeed.   That was the end of that love affair.    Been wanting to replace her ever since.    Probably have to do that soon.

That's a real disaster.

[Rift Zone]

That's a real disaster.

yea.    that was a bad day for me.    The scene was still smouldering when I got there for a nice morning paddle.   




This is precicely how I took it:   

Came back after a short drive along the creek, upstream of the reservoir, to assess the damage.   Being out $2500 worth of gear didn't hurt as much as loosing my traveling companion.   

[Magdalena]

This thing here ranks as one of my greatest desires:




^A Prijon Kodiak...   The one pictured above was mine.   I had it delivered to the Headwaters Hostel, Lake Itasca, Headwaters of the Mississippi River.   I packed it up and paddled down the river a ways...



^The Mississippi River starts out as a creek.     


It's more like a river further downstream:





I finally got it back to California, after getting snowed on on the Mississippi.    It gave me a chance to get around a local reservoir with my hatch covers off so I could pick up all the trash along the shore.   I filled that 17' kayak up 3 times getting it all, with the help of my escorts, of course (moms was pissed!  lol).




And then my baby got flambeed.   That was the end of that love affair.    Been wanting to replace her ever since.    Probably have to do that soon.

That's a real disaster.

Those are nice photographs, RZ,  ...Except for the last one. 

[Rift Zone]

Those are nice photographs, RZ,  ...Except for the last one. 

Thanks!    Yea, can't always be rainbows and butterflies, I guess.   

But sometimes you can get in a waterfall and dragonfly: 


one of the Sunset Falls series, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz Mountains, California.