Roxanne Appleby
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You're sweet.McKenna said:You're so cool, Rox.
A couple years ago I was taking a drive through the mountains and stopped to pick up a hitchhiker. Mind, this is NOT my usual practice, but he was in a wetsuit, helmet, and sunglasses and he had his kayak beside him. He'd been shooting the river that runs next to the highway and needed a lift back to his vehicle. Ever since then I've wanted to learn how to do kayak in white-water. I doubt I'll try anything over class III rapids (maybe, just maybe class IV) but it would still be quite an adrenaline rush.
I'm mostly almost old now, but I used to be almost cool. I learned to roll a kayak at a clinic in a swimming pool, but never got good enough to do it in earnest in a loaded sea kayak on wavy big water.
One time I picked up a hitchhiker with a high powered rifle on a lonely rural road. Seriously - it was in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on one of the first few days of deer hunting season in November: The guy was an obvious upstanding citizen - the rifle was like a bonafide in that context.
It turned out he had tracked a wounded dear for miles through the woods.