An Urban Boychick Takes on the Outdoors

This past Sunday I headed out for a quiet Sunday coffee paddle and look who I ran into at the marina! This was a nice blast from the past - Dave and Cyndi were my paddling companions throughout many years of kayaking. Cyndi largely moved on to cycling, and so it was good to see that they still get out on the water from time to time. We paddled together to Hains Point and back. It turns out we had all brought coffee and snacks, so we had coffee together back at the marina.

In the era of COVID, we're not getting away from home much (no one is) and so it felt pretty amazing to take a trip that lasted FOUR whole nights and took us two states away from Virginia (three, if you count DC). Valerie and I had a goal of visiting our friends Gail and Chris, who moved a few years ago to their dream retirement home in Rehoboth Beach. We figured that as long as we stayed away from the busy parts of the beachfront, the COVID risk was OK. Meanwhile, some of my kayak friends were planning a socially distant camping trip to Tuckahoe State Park on the Eastern Shore - a location which is pretty much right along the route to Rehoboth. Through some miracle we were able to influence these two trips to align in a way that allowed us to make one big combined trip out of it. After I spent some significant time Friday morning cramming two bicycles, a kayak, cycling gear, camping gear, kayaking gear, and vacation gear into my car, we set off and made it to Rehoboth (really Lewe...