Me vs. Ibogawa

While Colleen was away last week, I ventured out for a kayaking trip down our wonderful river with bartender/comedian Tetsuya and household shrine retailer/river master Seiki. Testuya never works during the day & Seiki freely opens & closes his shop, so we all met up at 10am and headed out; Tetsuya and I in kayaks, Seiki holding down the fort in the canoe.

I told them I had kayak/canoe experience, which was true, but Ibogawa surprised me & made my previous trips look like afternoons intertubing down the lazy river. Of course I flipped over TWICE within minutes (seconds?) of getting in the boat, which wasn't entirely due to my stupidity. The place we dropped in (right behind Seiki's store) is one of the rapidest spots in town. I ended up flipping a few more times, most of which were either in perfectly calm water trying to do some fancy maneuver or foolishly attempting to go upstream.

I managed to lose my wedding ring at some point - I'm guessing the oar slipped it off during one of my stints underwater - but besides that had a great time. Obviously I didn't dare take camera in the boat, but I snapped a few quick shots as we were loading everything up at the end.




Mike