Canoe Journey is so awesome. I feel like being on Journey is my real life and this other life (work, bills, etc.) is the "work" that allows me to live the life I want to live, as fleeting as the annual tribal journeys may be. I love being on the canoe so much, the people, the views, the clarity, ahhh. I have some shoulder/neck issues, and they are so relieved by hardcore paddling: it's like physical therapy, the right muscles being used the way they were meant to be used, none of this desk/computer crap. I also feel like I my body was born to do this, as if I am awakening something in my genes. I'm really glad I'm going back out there after working today and tomorrow too, because I think I would cry if it was already over.
We pulled from Potlatch to Brinnon the first day and it was for real hella crazy exhausting. An article about our first day landing:
I was on the only canoe that made it that day that the article talks about. Ed Green, the skipper in the article, is the skipper of the canoe I am on (he is really safety-conscious and experienced, and here is proof so my Mom doesn't worry).
The second day we landed in Port Gamble (I have seen no article about that: ha ha).
And here's an article about yesterday's landing in Port Townsend:
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