{"id":894,"date":"2009-02-23T00:07:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T22:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=894"},"modified":"2009-02-23T00:07:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T22:07:08","slug":"what-to-do-kayak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/what-to-do-kayak\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do? Kayak!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I asked a friend “Conan, what is best in life” and got a rather good summery from her: The best of life might be a time when you have the feeling your brain is being challenged and fed everyday, without having loads of stress and fear or inferiority complexes.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kayaking! There is absolutely no reason for me to think kayaking is a good thing, but why the fuck not?<\/em> It’s not as though I have a bunch of other hobbies that compete for my attention (Note to self: It’s always sunny in Philadelphia<\/em> isn’t a hobby) and there’s always the off chance that I’ll enjoy myself<\/em> – God forbid – and have fun<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I know I wrote that interesting stuff is happening around me and I’m looking forwards to spring. Yes, well, that was like a week<\/em> ago and the happy happy has left the way of Spongebob (and the season 4 of It’s always sunny in Philadelphia<\/em>) leaving me once again pondering the meaning of life and the “get a job for summer” issue.<\/p>\n

Lars, the happy architect I worked with at the museum last spring, is full of sage advice on any topic, and pointed me in the right direction when I asked about kayaking. I have this idea, see, where I would travel through Sweden on a kayak, using only smaller rivers and lakes. There are people paddling up the coast, but in my minds eye I see myself slowly gliding next to the riverbank with a straw in my mouth with a whistle on my lips. Whenever I felt like it I would just lean to one side and sleep on the soft and green grass; Birds chirping and strawberries within reach.<\/p>\n

Maybe a slight exaggeration, but I’d rather call it “hope” than “lunacy.” Forrest Gump never listened to the nay-sayers, now did he? Just picture me smiling like an idiot, paddling up a river. Tell you what, I might even consider fishing<\/em> if the expedition would be long. (Or does tofu keep for three weeks in a kayak?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I asked a friend “Conan, what is best in life” and got a rather good summery from her: The best of life might be a time when you have the feeling your brain is being challenged and fed everyday, without having loads of stress and fear or inferiority complexes. Kayaking! There is absolutely no reason … Continue reading What to do? Kayak!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,279],"tags":[542,544,541,545,543,377],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","category-photography","tag-find-oneself","tag-hippie","tag-kayak","tag-maps","tag-self-discovery","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}