"...what if everything around you was an elaborate dream..."

[despair57]

So I spent most of last night on a sandbar. We rode in our skiff to stake out some fishing sites, but it took longer than we thought, so the tide went out and we got grounded on a sandbar, and had to wait in the freezing cold for like two or three hours before the tide came back in. It kinda sucked.

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[anonymous]

Hey, so I'm totally new to all of this LiveJournal stuff, and yours is the first that I've read. So I may be completely out of line even attempting to do this "response comment" thing. It sounds like you really hate Alaska. I don't necessarily blame you; I spent nearly two weeks in Brazil this summer (part of the trip was on the Amazon) amongst big stinging insects, smelly cities, and purse snatchers. But I realized after I got back (conveniently) to Albuquerque that it really was a great trip in retrospective and that I should have appreciated it more while I was actually there. Somehow, though, I don't think that I would've looked at it quite that way on the trip, because I was out of my "comfort zone," which I wish that I could get out of every once in a while, instead of constantly harboring so much regret over what I failed to enjoy, and not just with the trip, but with everything else, like running, which I totally took for granted when I was good, but now that I want to enjoy it, I've totally gone to shit. Anyway, just a

Re: Take it or leave it

[despair57]

Thanks. I'll keep your advice in mind. I really like Alaska, it's just that I don't like the hard work involved in this job too much. But I'll try to enjoy it anyway.