A "Miss" Adventure With and Without Daughter Ruth
Daughter Ruth sitting by Virgin Creek, 3 miles in on a potentially ill-fated adventure. In the spring of 2022 our oldest daughter Sheila and I did an Inn to Inn Hike in Sweden. That adventure was to celebrate us turning 50 and 70, though due to the pandemic we were 51 and 71 by the time it took place. I decided I wanted to do some sort of outdoor adventure with each of my children in honor of them turning 50 which son Scott and I did in 2023. He and I did a white water canoe trip on the La Croix River that forms part of the border between Maine and Canada in the fall of 2023. I'd had so much fun doing these outings with my oldest children, and realizing that I was aging faster than they were and that I would be over 80 by the time the last one would be 50, I decided to speed up the trajectory of these trips and do one a year. So in the spring of 2024 son Shawn (then age 48) and I rafted down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon and hiked out on the Bri...
