BIG BEND: CANOEING THE RIO GRANDE

I never thought during our honeymoon we’d want to immediately challenge our relationship by attempting a sport requiring the full cooperation of us both. We were going canoeing. Isolated. Remote. Guided canoeing. Okay. We probably didn’t need the ‘guided’ part, but it was the only way for us to experience the Rio Grande and enter…

MY FIRST TIME

…kayaking I mean! Duhhhhh what else could I be talking about? Even though traveling to Weeki Wachee Springs from St. Petersburg, FL is parallel to hiking in a rainstorm through a desert (is there a town-wide ban on Taco Bells and Sweetbay Supermarkets?) the sudden increase of greenery and decrease of struggles to breathe were…