Great story…
This week, as I was trying to find a time I worked really hard, against all odds, upstream AND it was worthwhile, I remembered a trip with my ten year old about eleven years ago.
For his tenth birthday I gave him the gift of 3-4 days, just the two of us, in the backcountry camping and canoeing in the Swiss Jura, near where we lived. We saved the best for last day. A four hour canoe trip down a river that had a tiny gourmet french restaurant about mid trip. I figured I would have earned that by then, having ‘roughed’ it for a couple days. We parked our car at the train station and set off on foot to the canoe launch.
It was particularly windy that day. Like horrendously. Even the locals were surprised. I asked him if he still wanted to go – well DUH! So we set off. The country…
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