Portland callin. Great article. My friend has canoed the entire Willammette River a few times, solo and with friends, and loves it... he makes it almost sound like a Huck Finn adventure, stopping in at weird private landings, dive bars, river parties, sleeping in the parks, making friends with strangers. Personally, I'd be terrified to embark on a trip like this. I wish I had the confidence that I would be able to survive a bad day or two of food poisoning with nowhere to go.
Nice story. I wish I were closer to the area so I could explore its nature.
Paddling is one of the activities that makes me feel more present—no time for scrolling while slowly moving through the water. For the last 10 years, I’ve gone once or twice a year to the Danube swamps to disconnect and recharge. We’re lucky there aren’t any crocodiles!”
Nordic Countries always had it, because various nomadic lifestyles. But when it was written to law, Norwegians and Sweden invented 3 days limit on camping. Only purpose of this was to decimate the indigenous Sami-culture.
Finland does not have such limits, only vague statements of permanent settlements.
A very wholesome read. Thank you for sharing. I’ve never been so into outdoors/camping/fishing, but it made me reflect on some of my adventure trips I’m doing right now while I’m still young. And maybe these will be talked about in my future family.
That part of the Pacific is very sheltered by islands so it is often fairly calm. The First Nations people have hunted and traveled in canoes there for many generations (unlike the Inuit on the eastern arctic and in Greenland that used sealed kayaks where the water was rougher).
Using AI to summarize a piece meant to be a reflection on our humanity and our relationships is so profoundly sad to me. Either take the time to read it, or don't. You'll get nothing of value asking for bullet points.
This is a severe take. I for one read the summary and decided the full piece was worth reading.
But I get it. Summaries can suck the joy out of the journey sometimes. An alternate approach I've been taking is seeding my own Kagi assistant with context of who I am and what I like, then asking it, not for a summary, but if the long read is something I would enjoy. It usually is right.
Thank you for your reply but to suggest that someone get permanently banned from a website is a bit extreme. I'm just a human being like you trying to help out other humans. The read was very long for me and I thought that adding a summary would help others in a similar situation.
In the comment I explicitly stated it was a summary from ChatGPT so it's not an AI generated comment. Also, the terms of use and guidelines don't talk about AI used in comments.
