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Hello All,
Sorry for the blogging hiatus. We are back at the farm in Westminster with Hillary's parents. We apologize for the delay on the pictures but we have had to go through about 600 pictures and edit them and resize them and select the few that we want. We had a great time down at the beach with Hillary's parents and had a lot of time to reflect. It has been roughly two weeks off the water now and we are right back into the swing of things on dry land. I would say that I appreciate little things like beds, showers, and good home cooking a lot more than I used to. I have also started to realize how much of our days were taken up doing menial tasks that modern appliances make short work of. The biggest thing that I hope to have learned from my experience is improvisation and patience. It was a truly humbling experience in both. So many days ended with last minute adjustments to plans and last minute cancellations of reservations. I have learned to fear and dread a reservation and schedule even as I am planning out my whole summer. Also the overwhelming generosity of all the people we met along the way has been astounding. So few people told us along the way that we were wasting our time and doing something stupid. Support was a much more common response to telling people of our journey. People offered their cars, cash, their homes and camping on their property so often to the two of us. We had to turn down generosity more than we had to ask for it. I know I will have to be much more generous to others than I ever was before to try to repay some of the kindness we received along the way. We have already started planning a kayak trip around the northern part of the Chesapeake Bay. Nothing to the extent of this trip but another adventure all the same. I am also going to try to get a better blog or website set up than this one. Hopefully I can just upload this to a better service because what we did realize was that there were lots of limitations to this blogger. Hopefully setting up a website will also be helpful to get more people inspired to kayak the east coast. I am going to also set this blog up to be google searchable so the format will change a little. This also means that if you are a follower you will be google searchable as well. Lastly if you did read the blog and did enjoy following along could you send us an email at kayaktheicw@gmail.com letting us know, or if you would like more info or questions answered you could email us that as well. So this is all from me for the time being. Hillary is going to post some of her final thoughts and perhaps I will add some more when the format changes.
Nick