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It’s a cruel, cruel summer
Leaving me here on my own
- Bananarama

So while I’ve been buried under the cold, white winter, it seems just to rub it in, I can’t stop seeing green! Canoe and Kayak Magazine‘s new issue is on recycled paper. In fact the whole issue has gone green in some sort or another. The folks at Canoecopia have worked out this thing with the Chicago Climate Exchange to trade off the amount of Green House Gas emissions they use to put on the show. And of course there’s my personal hero Justine Curgenven taking suggestions on her blog for more ecologically responsible packaging. Now if that all were not enough to start turning my skin green, my new friend in Puerto Rico put up a whole bunch of pictures from the beaches around the island just to give me a taste of what we had to look forward to on our “Chasing The Ana” trip in August. . . I’m sure she meant well. .

So all this Greengage had me a bit flustered. I suddenly found myself considering running to Wal-mart to buy miles of extension cord. I couldn’t imagine it would take more than a week to melt all the snow in my yard with a blow drier. But that sure seemed like a lot of work. Especially when the grass would all be brown anyway.

Lastly I thought I would just drop everything I was doing and book an emergency flight to Belize. I’d find a special palm on a beach somewhere and just sit. There I’d be just sitting on a beach with white sand sneaking between my toes. I’d stare out into the deep blue sea while drinking cheap wine right from the bottle and daydream about a beach scene in “From Here To Eternity” (the 1953 version of course). There was only one problem with that plan. . .

I couldn’t find a guide. . .

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8 Responses to verde

  • JohnB says:

    I’ll be your guide, for the right price. Don’t know about the cheap wine though. My guiding service calls for the better stuff. . .good single malt Scotch and Irish Whiskies.

  • derrick says:

    What??? I’d have to pay you?? No friggin way!! Bad enough to have a guide with a big gray beard let alone having to pay for it!! LOL!!

  • Silbs says:

    You could turn up the heat in your room and watch those Corona beer ads…while sipping one.

  • derrick says:

    Yeah, I fear that may be as close as I get. Well that, and reading D.H. Lawrence. . .

    “And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages

    on the depths of the seven seas,

    and through the salt they reel with drunk delight

    and in the tropics tremble they with love

    and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods.”

  • Alex says:

    I may not know how to navigate the seas but I do know cheap wine!

  • meg says:

    D- we already talked about this yesterday, I told you i would go back in a heartbeat. I know where we can find that tree, I have seen it! I also know a great tree house to stay at. Why again am i going to Portland this year after canoeocpia instead of down to Belize again! i must be going crazy!

  • derrick says:

    Ah Meg, but you know you’d never leave that floor plan for me!! LOL!!

    Treehouse eh? Hmmm, They’d never miss you at Canoecopia would they!?? :-)

  • bonnie says:

    Bleah. It’s just like what’s got to be the easiest sell in advertising – all the ad-folks for the Caribbean tourist spots have to do to sell trips to New Yorkers this time of year is go into the subways and hog all the ad space with pictures of beautiful beaches.

    dose rat bastards.





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