09/14/2026
Many of you know that I spend a lot of time in Italy and Greece leading tours. Usually 1.5-2 months a year I am over there. But i am equally obsessed with our national parks. I grew up in them. They are under attack in ways we couldn’t have imagined. And I am the nerd that gets stamps in my passport book when I visit the parks and we have seen a lot of them. But we truly experience them far beyond the visitor centers and the best way to see many of them is in a canoe. It’s the most underrated vessel known to man. The earliest sign we have of canoe use comes from the Netherlands. A dugout canoe was found in 1955 and dated back 10,000 years!! Once you get out and see things from the water you will never be the same. This was a quick two day trip over the weekend.