FF – Canoes

Marge eyed the canoe with misgivings. In Bogotá the rental canoe sank as soon as the man renting it disappeared around a bend. In Alaska it took fifteen tourists paddling hard for two hours to get the heavy canoe across a little nothing of a lake. In Patagonia a whole fleet of fluorescent pink fiberglass canoes that looked stupid in front of such grandeur ruined a lot of her pictures.

“What’s the matter, Marge? Never been in a canoe before?” One of the tourists who had loudly proclaimed it was his first trip happily hopped into the canoe.

Marge smiled politely. “Something like that.”

The Hub: Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
Photo credit: Jennifer Pendergast

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