With the Minnesota vacation behind us we are trying to “find” our balance with our jet lagged bodies. After two years of hardly touching the water we now seem to be strengthening our under used paddle muscles.
Canoeing is all about balance. Balance in paddle strokes to smoothly get through the water. Balance with your paddle partner (maybe a good dose of communication would help here too) to know when you will suddenly move inside or out of the canoe, failure to do so can cause one or both of you a nice swim in the water.
Balance with nature. While in a canoe or kayak you are the closest you will ever be with undisrupted nature. Suddenly you are part of the story that going on all around you.
When things are in balance then wonderful happy things occur. Like running into a free concert at the State Park.
Sometimes practice on balance is needed or a reminder that maybe ego can be bumped.
We are now home in The Netherlands, new adventures coming soon.
We hope that each of you have found balance in your current lives.🛶
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Balance… I still remember when my nephew leapt out of the canoe to swim before I had time to shift my weight forward – it was too unstable with all my weight so far in the stern, and we both went swimming!
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Yup. A good way to get a quick unexpected swim.😂
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Hey, Bear Head Lake State Park – I know where that is now thanks to you! It is surprising how many times a day your think about the word balance, but consciously and subconsciously. On runs it is all about where to land the foot to keep the balance, Out in our woods, how many snakes before Linda loses here mental balance (answer is ONE by the way) and at home, how many minutes of fake news before the balance of sanity is loss (answer tends to be anything over 6 minutes. Maybe all those years training under the principles of the Yang and the Um, but I think balance is the root essence of life. Thanks for sharing.
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Funny about the TV thing. I could do an entire blog on just crazy commercial we saw while we were in the states. But, you are right, any experience with outdoor activities a person learns quickly how to balance needs and wants.😊🛶
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Sure seems like your time in Minnesota was good. It’s National Canoe Day today in the US and Canada. How lucky you are to explore the waterways of this area. (And I hope your return trip home was uneventful??!)
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I didn’t know about National Canoe Day. Funny as we paddled over 7km, I guess now, in celebration.😊 uneventful is a relatively relative term, for us, it was ok. We are just happy to be home.
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A great message balanced by some equally beautiful images.
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