Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Quetico Forum :: This is killing me!
|
Author | Message Text | ||
Banksiana |
|
||
24kGold |
|
||
bobbernumber3 |
Shoulder injury - hike on the North Country Trail. No vacation time - long weekend near home tent camping Canoe buddies ditched you - solo trip. Kids graduation - plan fall trip Wife won't let you - new wife. Get to work on your remedy! |
||
24kGold |
I can catch walleye here in Arkansas. I can canoe the Buffalo River, hike the mountains and fish on a multitude of lakes. It's a wonderful place to live if you love the outdoors. It does fulfill me. But, there's something special about dipping a paddle into a pristine lake and gliding across the silver surface to a secluded island campsite, cooking food over a campfire where relatively few have been, and falling asleep to the call of loons. I'm going to miss the drive north and the sight of the bridge in Duluth at daybreak. I'm craving the Northshore drive lined with birch and the patches of lupine. My plate of blueberry pancakes at the Bluewater Cafe in Grand Marais will have to be served to someone else this year. I know I sound melancholy, but I'll get over it. Next year will be sweeter, and I know that for that special week, I can slip back into a place that never changes. |
||
24kGold |
Earlier in the year when I realized I wouldn't be going, I thought I could handle it. "It will be okay. A year off will make me appreciate next year more." I kept telling myself that until about 2 weeks ago. Now, I can't say that anymore without making myself nauseous. I know that reading this message board and looking at north-shore lake cams is causing further torture to my soul, but I can't help myself. I'm addicted to Quetico trips and I'm not getting my fix. Maybe I should find a group somewhere. "Hello, my name is Terry, and I'm a Quetico-aholic." No. I don't need that kind of cure, I need to go north for a week. I'm almost to the point of sitting in a pile of ashes and rending my garments! Okay, it's not quite that bad, but, I miss my annual Quetico trip. Does anyone have any words of wisdom for me? Something that can help me make it until next year? Some type of cyber hug that will ease my pain? Anything? |
||
Jackfish |
|
||
saltdog |
|
||
Thwarted |
|
||
GraniteCliffs |
I have paddled Quetico every year for a long, long time. Like 45 years, always at least twice. This year I have done my solo in the Q and don't go again until August 21st. I am on hold pending the birth of our first grandchild. And that break is killing me. I feel for you holding a full year! |
||
BnD |
|
||
Wables |
|