Still in southport. We have gotten in touch with someone who might be able to repair my kayak. She is going to meet up with us today and we will see what she says about fixing it. We have moved from the motel to the bed and breakfast across the street. The kayaks didnt have to move though which is important. It is funny how some people understand what you are doing and some dont. The motel people were very accomidating to us but told us that we could land the kayaks at the motel. There is a rock breakwall that we had to climb the kayaks over to get them anywhere off the beach. We called the kayak shop in town and she said she would be down to take a look at the situation. She instantly understood that there was no way we were getting these boats anywhere without lots of help. Hopefully everything goes well and the bad weather rolls through today as well and tomorrow it is camping on a nice sunny beach. We will keep you up to date with todays developments. For the record a restored victorian bed and breakfast is waaayy to nice of a place to be housing us. We hid our laundry that we are hanging up to dry behind the door so we wouldnt appear trashy.
Nick
"Trashy" is not a word that would applies to hippie pirates. Hippie piracy somehow transcends trashy. I mean you have to be "on the continuum" to be at its "trashy" end. A conventional social continuum might range from snobby to trashy. I should think that the hippie pirate continuum might run from "bohemian" (travels light; relying on the conventional cultural infrastructure to the maximum extent) to "cluttered."
ReplyDeleteThe challenging question is, "Are they in anyway orthogonal?" That is, "What are the dimensions that the conventional social continuum and the hippie pirate social continuum share, such that one could describe both conventional folk and hippie pirate folk in terms of those dimensions?"
I am not sure. I look forward to the thoughts of these "guilty" conventionals-becomoming-hippie pirates as they swill rum at preferred water-side campsites.
I hope the kayak can be repaired relatively easily. HIllary, when I complain about making sure the goats get milked and all the work that goes with it, I will have to think of you! You and Nick have done the impossible - made me GLAD to be helping milk goats instead of getting sore, tired,... from all that kayaking!! Hopefully you'll get to enjoy sunny beaches tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteMame Miller
Hi Mrs Miller!
ReplyDeleteAt this point we are in good enough shape that we aren't getting to sore from the paddling: ) No sunny beaches today, but we are having a great time in Southport, NC. We couldn't ask for a nicer bunch of folks or a better place to get rained in!
Hillary