Things ( excuses) which I once believed: "Self-reliance".... while heavily armored and equiped with the synthetic wherewithal of the petrochemical industries back home.(My plastic canoe, Goretex parka, maps created by satellites, deposited in the "wilderness" by a floatplane which will be back in 6 weeks, if I don't activate my EPIRB beacon ) "The unknown"...to my chagrin I have found that some of those "blank-spots on the maps"which I have hungered to see since childhood, look a lot like places I have already seen (the central Barrens look suspiciously like western Nebraska after a wet spring). "Solitude"... well we did get 20 days to ourselves in Northern Saskatchewan. It made me wish for 200 days, though I was beginning to dream of a cold micro-brewed beer toward the end. "Becoming 'disconnected' from the daily prattle of modern life....well, it's not much comfort knowing that it will all still be there when you return"...like a 36 hour pass from prison. Excuses that I still use: Beats work. Rather spend my summers in northern Canada now. My retirement can be spent sitting in a urologists office, wearing diapers, while discussing treatment options for a malevolent prostate. Excuses that I use with co-workers: "Hell, you have to admit that I am less "grim" in the weeks AFTER Canada, than the weeks BEFORE." :) Rich Dempsey *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Apr 19 2000 - 15:37:44 PDT
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