RE: [Paddlewise] A Case of Bad Attitude

Well, I'm cleaning out barf buckets and learning to cook and buy groceries
in season and do dishes and housework and homework and also which loads of
laundry to do together. I'd rather be maytagged than stuff a Maytag or punch
through foam rather than plunk pots into a foamy sink - but such is life.
Our bodies give out. Our spouses get sick. We've been peeing, pooping,
breathing, and pumping blood for over 5 decades and things to wear out and
break and disintegrate - or whatever you want to cal it. My loving wife did
the domestics for decades while I did the other exciting stuff, way more
than was rightfully so, so now it's my turn with the mundane. I'm certainly
glad I got all that wild solo paddling in when I did  - when I had good
health and domestic bliss and a dutiful, beautiful wife (friend, partner,
lover) waiting for me back home. I think I'd be resentful if I had spent
those years working on getting kayak certificates. Some training is great -
even essential - especially if done under good tutelage, but my own
watertime doing what I want while being relatively safe isn't anything, as I
said, that I regret.

DL  

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Mark Sanders
<marksanders_at_sandmarks.net>wrote:

> So don't come tell me how high you are in the BCU, I want to know what
> percent you're down to!
>

It's all part of our obsession with "credentials". I have no credentials. I
like to paddle but haven't done much since my knee surgery. But I've been
pedaling a LOT. No BBU (British Bicycle Union) to tell me how to get stars
in downhill, cross country, or free riding. No one to look down on me if I
don't "bunny hop" five different ways. Sure, there are arrogant mountain
bike riders but most people are just happy to get out for a few hours now
and then. No arguments over whether skills are more important than gear
either.

This weekend I'm celebrating my wife's birthday by going to a desert ranch
run by the BLM with tons of trails, a dry lake, free camping and sunshine.
My wife is going to visit her sister. LOL

I still love to kayak but I'm trying to diversify. No stars for me.

Craig Jungers
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