I agree with Scott…
…love finds us (not the other way around) when we are good and ready to handle whatever challenges and joys that accompany it. I guess that’s why I’m still alone (not to be confused with lonely). We are all a work in progress, and, I still have a tiny bit of “tweeking” left to do on myself before my honeybunny’s path crosses mine! But, he’s close…I can feel it deep in my soul…Kim
Have Fun! Live Well!
When you have having fun, everyone want to be your friend!
kudos, 'cuda
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for the best post yet on the topic!
There’s a bunch of…
…seriously hot female boaters. I know quite a
few, unfortunately, I’m married and they are off
limits, but they are there.
Water divas in the Midwest
Single kayaking female in the Midwest. Have own boat, jeep for hauling gear and 5 bikes. Lost count on the number of trips I’ve done solo because no one wanted to go out into the wilderness. It is probably the fact that I’m 6’0. I’m so much taller than the locals.
My parents insist I need to try out for Survivor. First aid and CPR certified.
I bike, hike, ski and kayak-must be a burb thing since I have a hard time meeting the single guys.
Try Northwest Passage or guided adventure trips for meeting the interesting and active people you desire to meet.
Try other cross sports for meeting members of the oppostie sex. I have met a lot of great people in the local bicycle clubs-legs and heart need just as much as a work out as those arms.
Good luck to you and don’t give up
No booze in the Pungo
Kayak trips can be romantic and include very special moments for authentic physical and emotional sharing,
I know this from the great trips I have taken with my wife and with another woman who loved the adventure of being out on the water paddling from the mainland to a picturesque island. Someone earlier on this thread mentioned a bottle of chardonnay to spice thing up. While few peope enjoy a drink more than I do, I have stuck to a hard and fast rule–No booze in the kayaks.
Atomgirl
You sound like a hardbody from your profile comment about your abs…too bad you are sequestered in the midwest!! We could use a hardbodied gal such as you in CT…
Oh, and 6’ tall women don’t scared me…I am 6’2"!!
Scott
Woodsy Camping Women, Until Married
The joke in one circle of friends is about how dates used to go camping and get out in the woods. Then, BAM!, they got married and never went camping again.
I am proud of my wife, she still goes out on some of the trips. And we’ve been married ten years.
A word to the wise, sometimes “roughing it” is not the best way to encourage your partner. A few luxeries will do wonders to keeping them happy and having a good time.
I make certain there is always some GOOD coffee and a fancy-yuppie-campfire-coffee/espresso maker. Do what works.
Jay H.
is there some male who
Has enough income for own car, beer, personal needs, toys, cell phone bills, electronic toys, and such
Is up for impromptu trips camping, adventuring, driving to Maine or Minnesota or somewhere cleaner than here
Doesn’t freak out if we have to share paper plates and plastic forks or drink from the same wine bottle
If he were to live with me and not help with the mortgage or utilities at least don’t bitch about my housekeeping I didn’t go get a masters degree to do housekeeping
Does not tell me that 56 is too old an age to take up kayaking or wonders how I get my fat ass into a kayak anyway?
Like pets and takes responsibility for the care of at least their own
Likes to go camping and paddling, must be able to swim
When camping he puts up the tents, I’ll buy the first six pack and help gather the firewood
Always wears protection, be it in the water or in the water bed
No laughing at me behind my back or lying to me.
Will not bring diseases, come in high, or bring back my car on empty.
Will keep his affairs to someplace other than my condo
Will be my sincere friend and truly appreciate me and vice versa
Can help put up tents and hoist kayaks
Avoids small people with small minds and is not impressed by small minded good looking people of either sex or smooth talking alcoholic social workers
Has things that he likes to do and is happy with himself
If he walks about in women’s underwear sometimes I could accept that but don’t borrow mine or laugh at my chest size with his flat chested friends.
Not take pot shots at my religious preference or my liberal blue church
Walks his own dog and does not let me find a pile of shit by the bed, dog shit that is
Doesn’t pretend to know things he doesn’t know.
Uses his own computer access for accessing pornography, I won’t care just don’t use mine
If he goes to join the gay pride parade, doesn’t let his pony pee in my van or let his dogs pee there either
Will respect my cats and not let my cats out of the condo no matter how much they seem to want out
If I’m making too much noise in bed, find another bed unless it is noise you are enjoying
Yes he can call me from your cell phone at two AM on a work night to say you are coming home
Be a citizen or have a legal visa or a green card and will not assume the identity of some alcoholic social worker from the VA Hospital
Is able to congregate a verb in English
Know that I will probably offer to do your tax return for free, not because I’m being nosy
If there are kids, I might like them - do they camp, swim, or canoe?
I’m not becoming a Mormon, no matter how many wives you have
I can cook but I don’t often do so so don’t expect anything cooking unless we both feel the urge
Friends help each other - no hindering please
No power trips (just camping and paddling trips), no screaming, no lying regardless of how many personalities you have in one body
Can be lots of fun, mucho good humor, and a live and let live attitude is also desired
I might walk your dog sometimes but sometimes you might clean the cat box
Knows the difference between a hair ball and cat poop
Throw your beer cans out or recycle them, don’t just stack them on the table and no smoking inside, not even home grown good stuff
If you put sugar, god forbid, in your coffee don’t also leave a thickness of wet sugar on the table
Thinks that a secluded sandy beach in August is a good place to well you know…
Yikes
Wow, that is quite some list. I hope you haven’t had the, uh, pleasure of actually experiencing all the bad stuff?
I’ve got my own list of “never agains”. I’m relieved to say that some of them now seem almost amusing. Can’t believe what I put up with, but then again I’m sure I was a jerk a lot of times, too.
Being married does have its advantages, LOL…the list of bad stuff stays pretty much the same!
"The List…"
I wonder who WetSandyFeet is? Woman? Man? Whoever it is pushes me to younger women who have shorter lists…
;^)
you’re just looking for an excuse…
to go after younger women. 
just remember, younger women with shorter lists are more likely to add to them along the way; so don’t complain about the “rules” changing when, well, when they do. grin
Amen!..
Been there, done that.
No blame to place, just human nature and the maturation process.
What strange creatures we be, eh?!
And why are we so driven to forsake our individual freedom?
As amazing as it may seem to some folks, being single is not a state of unhappiness, at least for certain individuals. I grow weary from the efforts of well intentioned friends and relatives.
I like my reality… life is good. If a soulmate perchance enters said reality then… life will be good in a different way.
We are responsible for our own happiness. Nobody else can do this for us.
Holmes
Don’t get any funny ideas,
my wife, the love of my life, does not kayak much, but my two daughters do. Taking them paddling is one of the greatest pleasures of my life. I hope that I am teaching them to appreciate nature and develop their own sense of adventure. Do fathers raise their daughters to be the kind of women he most admires?
Wow I feel so above average now
thanks for posting that disgusting doccument, it’s greatly improved my self esteem.
Daddy did!
And good for you for doing the same with your daughters, Dietz!
Goofy in love with the outdoors,
Treezrus
We met through PNet Classified’s
of all things. I responded to an ad for a kayak he had for sale almost 2 years ago. I didn’t buy the kayak (in fact he still has it), but invited him to come up and paddle with a few friends. We married this past February. We still paddle regularly and are avid bicyclers also.
So keep an open mind and have fun with like-minded people.
Gail
Now that’s
cool! 
Thank you for reminding me
I need to tell my partner how much I appreciate her.
levity - was the purpose
The list was provided for levity - and from experiences I can only look back at and laugh at if I didn’t laugh outright at the time.
I think the list also reflects an open mind on my part. Truly its a pretty easy going list, if indeed a long one. For Example, how many of you would want to wear women’s underwear anyway?
A short list would be
Sane, Stable, and Legal
Kind, Fun, and doesn’t fuss the small stuff
Has their own monies
Likes to swim, camp, and go paddling
Has or doesn’t mind pets
But how boring is that?