I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area this week to visit family. While out here, I thought it would be fun to take a trip with our older-sister sea kayaking club BASK (Bay Area Sea Kayakers), founded in 1986. So I joined up as an out of state member a couple of weeks ago and signed up for yesterday's Thursday Lunch Paddle, a regular midweek BASK trip that's been going for about 10 years. With the generous help of Danny, the trip initiator, it turned out to be pretty easy to find a club member who co