The fact that we are heading into another week of cold, clear, river dropping weather is really getting me down. The persistant high pressure this winter is slowly maken me crazy....or is it maken me sane?    If the weather had been like this for the last 20 years what would my life be like?....
During a normal wet winter I spend most of my days on the river, and that's all that matters... work, women, the future, and everything else that so many hold dear is secondary. But this season I'm beside myself, with less days on the river in 5 months then I would get in 2 weeks. What have I been doing? Working to much, spending to much, went to the mall and got a smartypants phone(I really hate texting), online dateing(wow kayakers can get laid), dreaming of many escape fantasies (sell the property and sail away), and generally haveing some kind of freezing cold, low water driven midlife crisis. I love being a kayak bum, but without water I guess I'm just a bum that hates working but has no excuse not to. How do regular people do it?

I guess I'm just spoiled and this winter is a realty check, but if its like this next year I realy will go sane

this is an easy one....plan a trip. ecuador. chile. peru. mexico. all have rivers. all are warm. all are accessible in january-february.

Yes -30 is worse Keenan haha
And your right Chipper a trip would be great, altho not financial possible for me this month
Yes there has been water Sam, but not like a normal year. I may just have to bite the bullet and head north to the land of traffic for some boating. But I gave up on day trips to the Sky from Oly years ago and generally go south or out to the Olympics

Im just spoiled and whining I guess.... But the fact is if the weather was like this for the last 20 years my life would be much difrent, as I have made kayaking the wounderfull storms we normaly get all winter a way of life. Strange to think about what my life would be like without kayaking.

just pack another 1k on for travel. then half your life for the divorce and take off to the land of sun. what it was like to be young... wait. how old is you brett?

well this weather has messed with fishing, snow sports, working on cars, riding bikes and taking my kids to play in the sprinklers so i guess it got us all bigwater.

i was spraying water in the street today to go skating with the kids tomorrow and my neighbor got all mad cuz his car couldnt get in the driveway.... cant win for loosin

oh smart phones are sweet. i did this wicked cold post on one in the skate park.

I live in San Antonio...

Adam- thanks for the post I was starting to think I was the only one with the high pressure blues. I like how you said you have been catching back up with "life"...I think my realization of how much catching up I could do is a big part of my blues...maybe it is time to rebalance (certainly my bank account). But as I type this the sound of the rain on my skylite is washing my blues away. Would I trade 20 years of kayaking for other things I may have missed out on? Hell no! (altho this smartphone is pretty cool) Guess I'm just a river bum, and have been for long enough that its to late for anything else
Haha...Let it rain!