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Trip recovery

Alan Gage

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Home at noon yesterday and not going back to work until Monday so today, Friday, is my first full day home and I feel like I'm at loose ends. I should unpack, go grocery shopping, and start my life back up again. But I have no desire to do so. I finally unloaded the canoe from my car late this morning and decided I felt like going for a paddle so I clamped the carry thwart on, threw lunch fixins in a small pack, and portaged out of my yard about 3/4 mile to the river behind my house for a 4 mile upstream paddle and then back, stopping for lunch along the way.

It was great. It started off cool, cloudy, and windy. The sun teased me and almost came out, then it got cloudy, again, then it started sprinkling, then it started raining, and Sadie and I both wound up standing on shore shivering in the rain with a small fire going trying to cook lunch. It was just like I never left Canada! All that was missing was the mosquitoes but the day is still young.

Alan
 
Take it slow. Monday will be rougher. I have no good advice to give concerning changing gears, directions, focus; except stay positive. And work on your TR. (I'm anxious to see the Bloodvein.) Welcome back Alan.
 
Just wondering if Sadie checked out the chickens when she got back.

Jim
 
As you are making the transition from Voyageur to keyboard ninja, keep in mind that we are anxiously awaiting your trip report. Although your keyboard fingers may have withered, I'm sure you'll be able to compensate with your new month long paddling muscles. I received your paddle sock the day everyone arrived for our trip, and Robin brought me one too, so there were quite a few yuck yucks that night. Anyway, best post trip advice is to quit porting and paddling for a while and git typing, do you a world of good!
 
keep in mind that we are anxiously awaiting your trip report.

Patience my friend, patience. I wasn't planning to but ended up shooting quite a bit of video and I'm glad I did, it's fun to look back on. But now I need to get familiar with some video editing software before putting something together for the trip report.

I received your paddle sock the day everyone arrived for our trip,

Good timing. It actually came with that carbon paddle you ended up with. Forgot I even had it until your mini-rant so I went and dug it up. ;)

Alan
 
Right you are, Alan. Trip recovery is tough. It's not the endless mounds of laundry, the dirty gear that needs cleaning and drying, not any of that. It's the just not being out there anymore. A bit of a let down. I think your prescription sounds rather genius. Get back on the water and paddle some more. Will most certainly check back for your video.
 
Learning new video editing software and the paddle from the original post was the test subject. Might as well post it rather than let it go to waste. A little tour of my backyard, home waters, and Sadie and I shivering in the rain.


Alan
 
Cold, rainy, and sucky...lol...welcome to Manitoba.

You forgot hot, humid, and hordes of mosquitoes. And dry riverbeds. Believe it or not, you lucked out cuz two weeks before you got here we had NO water anywhere.

I get it though man, I had a tough time with the weather this year too. I wanted to get out this weekend and it is like 30 plus out there with 60kph winds. crap. I have only had maybe one normal year here in the last ten...the others have all been one extreme to the other.

Christy
 
Loved it Alan !
You must have brought that rain with you from Canada ! HA !
It's disheartening to see the green water, but I share that river, as well as the love for it ! Home Waters carry a lot of good memories !

Thanks for the vid !

Jim
 
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