Re: [Paddlewise] humbled

<<I've got a gut feeling that responses from the respectable audience are
masking genuine reaction, :-), which, probably, such jorney deserves -
feeling of being humbled.  So, in the spirit of that - of course, ignorance
is a bliss; (though, I suspect, at least one of them had some knowledge and
experience). >>

    Actually, what I was thinking was a young woman who marries a man she whom
she trusts has the knowledge to get them to their goal. Her faith in his
abilities makes the adventure memorable rather than a nightmare of fear of
what might happen. She may know about bears and maybe about waves and wind but
not hypothermia and running out of food and water. It is kind idyllic to think
about a very young woman, who has married and is now being taken to some new
world by this husband. It sounds like she recalls this trip fondly so it must
have been more than just going from point A to point B. I imagine it to be a
trip that was thought out with the idea of providing interludes for those they
would seek out, which would also give them time on firm ground, to bathe,
walk, be together and be newly wed.
    They didn't have to "worry" about things that us modern folk take for
granted we need to worry about. Clean water? Bear canisters? Why would bears
think people had food? Hypo-what? Take a bit of dry wood but we can take what
wood we need when we get there. Tents leak, of course, leaves and pine needles
for a mattress.  Lost? (where IS that GPS)
    To me, this is not my idea of heaven in 2004 but it may well have been
back when they made their trip. Knowledge makes priorities for most people.
There may be some overarching priority like safety but the details are in what
we know and expect. I wonder what she expected the day she set her foot in
that boat, I like the ideas I have.

Joan
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