I had been a batchelor all my life, till a colleage, who had become a widow a few months earlier, and me became a pair. Some rules she demanded, would be adhered to: As she had spent so much time camping with kids, dog and husband, she was now beyond that - never more: No sleeping on the ground, ever. Promise?! One day my shoulder started to act up the first time, and we realised that we needed to get out more, move about more, somehow. Why not paddling?! Then I got some money and as we live in a small flat a Klepper became the obvious choice - I didn't know anything about any other type of folding kayak, so it was a Klepper Aerius II Expedition we bought. I then learned that my wife was an expert canoe paddler, as all those camping trips had included a Grumman, so retraining her for a Klepper was easy, and she knew the perfect lake to paddle on, with lots of unihabited islands and ready access. But after a while it was obvious that we could get more out of it, if we stayed overnight one one of the islands, or on one of the peninuslas. So we got a three-man Hilleberg tent, and as we aged we progressed to a bigger tent - now we can stand up inside our tent - a real blessing, and recently we got some Hennnessy's Hammocks :-)! And one Aerius II became an XXL, with a modification kit and then we were given an old skeleton from a 70's Aerius II, so now we have both a Ae II and an XXL, thus can take our friends with us! Yes, it is nice to share the outdoor interest with your spouse, and even if age makes us more and more disabled, we will spend many more happy weekends on our little lake! Hopefully keeping paddling/sailing/motoring our Kleppers till we reach 75, or so :-)! Tord *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Mar 21 2007 - 05:03:24 PDT
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