First Post! Summer 2021 Vision Quest

After a several year hiatus from attempting to articulate my thoughts about life, kayaking and what the heck it all means, I have decided to rekindle my efforts in the hope of creating some sort of archive of my adventures. In a perhaps futile effort to disassociate myself from the teenage angst that facilitated much of the written meanderings of my last blog, I have started a new one (this one) with an almost identical title and content that is more similar than I would like to acknowledge. Here it is. Read at your own risk. Right now I am living at my parents house in Truckee, pushing the liberal agenda to the youth of America, or as it is transcribed on my resume "teaching high school history". In between helping kids write essays they didn't know about until the day they're due, I have been putting all my energy and focus into preparing for an upcoming trip to Pakistan to paddle the Indus River. California has been a poor imitation of its identity as a whitewater...