A good way to start any great adventure is to ease into it by doing something that you are already familiar with, something like rafting the mighty Payette River, just north of Boise, ID. My family has been camping and rafting here for about 20 years, staying in the same campground, enjoying the same 4 stretches of river that we've always done. My sister Barbara, her hubby Paul and some of their friends from SLC meet us there for 3 days of fun filled rafting. Somehow it just never gets old. We are the first of our rafting group to show up in an RV and I think I detected a few envious looks as we gave folks the tour. It is a little weird to be on the "other side", having always poo-pooed RVs in the past! You know you're getting old......
A great thing about our trips is that there are almost always some young folks along to do the heavy lifting and learn the ropes so that in a few years they will be captaining us old folks down the river. The weekend after our rafting trip my son Tommy took a bunch of his friends on his first organized rafting trip here at the Payette. It has become a legacy activity!
You'd better make sure Tommy brings his friends the same weekend as the "seniors" to do all that heavy lifting and captaining!
ReplyDeleteSmall world story: Dan and I were camping in our little teardrop trailer in the Redwoods last week. There was another little teardrop trailer camped nearby, with Utah license plates. We stopped to talk to the couple and discovered our itineraries were similar as we headed up the Oregon coast. We ran into them a couple of times, and in the course of conversation discovered that they are whitewater enthusiasts from SLC, and are part of that whitewater group that camps at the Payette campground the same weekend as you do! Maybe we'll meet them there next year.