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| Faye Leads the Way |
What a difference a week
makes! Last Monday was a perfect Indian
summer day and I was kayaking on the Appomattox – today I’m hunkered down,
glued to the television, monitoring what the weather channel is calling “ the
storm of a lifetime.” What a crazy flip
of nature. My neighbor Faye invited
me for an afternoon paddle…something I’ve been itching to do, so I accepted
with enthusiasm. Our route was to take
us on three local bodies of water, starting at Wilck's Lake behind the public
library, paddling down Buffalo Creek where it empties into the Appomattox and
then following the Appomattox into downtown Farmville. Faye indicated it was an easy paddle and
would take about two hours. Well, you
may remember the cliche “two hour tour.”
It was more like four. But, oh so
fine. Mind you, I have not done any kayaking
in quite a while so I was a bit rusty.
This became apparent straight away when I tipped it at a precarious
angle getting in. I’m sure I saw alarm
on my friend’s face. I can only guess
what she was thinking about the entire venture ahead of us. I have to admit that within the first five
minutes my arm muscles were talking to me and my flu shot was whining. Now I’m thinking I’ve gotten myself into
something I can’t even see the end of the tunnel…or the river as the case may
be. But it got better and better and I got the
rhythm and my muscles relaxed. We had to
portage the kayaks up and over the High Bridge Trail, we navigated around fallen
trees and pushed ourselves over sandbars all throughout the beautiful afternoon. We laughed a lot. We even startled a deer who was resting next
to the river’s edge. It was a perfect afternoon.
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