I wanted to post as “the zip line” for our blog because I see our year leave as a big adventure. Zip lining being an adventure sport, you zip from one tree to another. In the same way, I hope to be able to quickly communicate our adventures and misadventures via this forum. Costa Rica is the original home of zip lining, and one of the key volunteer activities that our family will be involved in this year is building a zip line at a kids camp in Costa Rica...more on that later.
Just to be clear, our “year leave” officially starts on August 1 of this year. But for now, we are on vacation - packing, finishing up little tasks, and enjoying our favorite local adventures before we go travelling. A vacation before our vacation, so to speak.
The adventure of the week - whitewater kayaking on the English River. Yep, you can whitewater kayak in Sioux Lookout. No need to raft the Thompson, the Ottawa, or the Pacuare river when you live in the North, it’s all in your backyard. Drive 30 minutes out to Flying Loon lake, plunk your kayaks down, and you have 14 miles of whitewater coming up. Its remote access, so once you go down the first set of rapids (nearly 1km long with waves up to 4 feet high), there’s no going back and there are 7 more sets of rapids and fast water ahead. 6 hours of adrenaline.
The misadventure of the week - squirrels in the soffits. 5 of them actually. There was a small gap near the chimney for years, and nothing ever got in...but when we “upgraded” to board and batten siding, the little critters could easily climb up and find a way in. So, hopefully that’s solved now.
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