Wifey B: Well, we're not going anywhere but still cruising every weekend. This past weekend we spent about 12 hours on the water and covered over 300 nm and ended up right where we started again.
I learned of boating as the best way ever to relieve all stress of work in 2001 when my hubby, fiancee at the time, took me our and then after we were married in June of 2001. It didn't matter how hard the day was or the week was if we could get even an hour on the water. It's like the breeze in your face blows all other thoughts away.
Today with all that's going on and the two of us actually working to keep business going and try to keep people employed. So, we can't cruise anywhere, but we can get out on the water and we do every weekend. And for us as well as our extended family which is all working with us, it washes away the stress of the week, the stress of the world. When we're on the water, we're free. It refreshes and equips us to face what we must during the next week.
I remember the first time I saw my hubby at the helm of our small boat on the lake and he was transformed. I could see it in his face, in his relaxed body. He was no longer a businessman, but a boater. The child of him emerged. Then he asked me if I wanted to try driving the boat. That was eay to answer, "
yeah". I guess I thought it would feel like driving a car, but it didn't, not at all. It was exhilarating, it was beautiful, it was so sensual in that it brought all the senses into play, the smell of fresh air, the touch of it across you, the sounds of the water, the beauty of the lake. I was hooked, just as much as if it had been heroin or something but much safer. The water is our escape, our safe zone, our heaven on earth.
And one last thing, you can never explain the feeling to a non-boater. They have nothing in their experiences to compare it to as you describe it. It has to be experienced.
