also posted this on ediets..
more random thoughts….i’ll get back to my vacation blogging in a bit…still thinking about what to write
so - this is what I added to ediets, a while ago…thought it was interesting.
i just got back from some “cabining” in the calveras area…i know my buddies and i did a mess load of drinking….but thank goodness that was just one night for me. we did a great 15-20 minute hike, towards the upstream area of the stanislaus river. it was beautiful, sunny, and warm (at least 96 degrees). we also did some splashing around in some seriously cold river water.
i had a near brush with death (it seems that extreme to me since i have this intense fear of drowing) - the current was pretty strong and the folks encouraged me to use that to swim over to the other side of the river - where everyone was sunning out on some rocks. i figured, why not? so I paddled over. What i didn’t realize was that the river dropped quite a few feet (according to one guy - at least a 10 feet drop, if not more) I felt myself dipping under - which kinda freaked me out since I was wearing contacts. I tried to touch my feet on the ground and I didn’t feel it. Not a thing! So, I was in full blown panic mode. Luckily - several guys jumped in and dragged me the few inches i needed to hit some solid rock. Everyone told me I already made it, I was just panicky towards the end.
I saw my boyfriend on the other side of the riverbank. Mark doesn’t know how to swim, so he just watched. I realized how this was kinda similar to what I will soon experience, when I leave California for Chicago, in a few months (I’m heading over to Northwestern for grad school). I’ve never lived outside of the state before and well, heck - I won’t know a soul over there. I’ll also leave Mark behind.
so..that’s that.
