LMAO! I know! I was thinking that this morning....
mojo- my mom's family has lived on a lake for as long as I can remember, I'm a water junky and have waterskiied since being a kid - I'm not a whiz at it but I've done it. My point is that its not like being able to go to the beach - if you don't have access to someone w/ a boat or a house up on that lake, you ain't going. I'm a water person - I know a lot of people say "I'm a water person" -- I grew up on Lake Superior. Grandparents live on one of the "10,000 lakes" in the "land of 10,000 lakes", I've already determined where I want my ashes dumped and it will be on the backside of the 3rd reef in 80ft of water off of Pompano Beach, FL. If I didn't have to breathe I could just live down there at that depth. When I lived in Arizona for the first 2 months I lived there I didn't have a car so I'd borrow a bike, pick a direction and go to see if I could find water somewhere. I guess I can't express enough how landlocked I feel here w/o access to the ocean somewhere. (and sorry - a 6 hr drive to my parents' condo isn't pulling it either...) Its just where my current job situation has led me and I haven't been able to orchestrate an escape yet.
Anyway.. just trying to make it to "somewhere".