Saturday, August 6th, 2011

I put a roast in the crockpot while Chuck worked at assembling our birthday gifts to each other....an inflatable kayak.  We thought an inflatable would be great to store in the "basement" of the motorhome, just in case we came across a pretty body of water.  On previous trips we had taken our hard-shell tandem, but it was cumbersome to deal with on top of our SUV.

After some confusion about how to inflate it, it was finally firm as we thought necessary.  We strapped it on top of the SUV and drove it across the river access.   It felt quite different from our hard shell and both our backs hurt before our 3-hour paddle was through.  We plan to add some different seats and an electric pump with a guage.  With that said, the views were gorgeous and unlike any we had seen on the many rivers and lakes we have kayaked in Florida.

After dinner, we watched an HBO movie on my computer (I love hbogo.com)