On Tuesday June 26, 2007 at approximately 7:00 pm, our family suffered a great tragedy. Our kayak "Baby Blue" was violently taken away from us - a victim of a 40 mph wind gust and a faulty car rack. She flew off of our car as we were driving north on the I-5.
We pulled the car off to the side of the road and ran back to inspect the damage. The kayak was lying motionless and unresponsive at the bottom of the ditch. Despite the twenty foot 65mph fall she was in tact and had no visible wounds; however, the collateral damage to the car rack was impossible to repair and we had no way of strapping her back to the car. The highway patrol promptly showed up and declared that there was nothing we could do for her and that we had to move on.
Disregarding the cop's advice, we did some emergency surgery - extracting the life jackets and seats from her bowels. We knew there was nothing else we could do except to say goodbye. As we took one last look at Baby Blue, scenes from her brief life filled our hearts. She had only been with us three months, but those months were filled with memories that will last a lifetime (we have the scars to prove it).
As a tribute to Baby Blue, I have made a video of her last voyage for you all to enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vayv1PeG_zc
May God have mercy on her soul.
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Aaron and Lindsey, It's always hard when we loose loved-ones (and after only 3 months!), but just remember that this to shall pass. Our thoughts and prayers go out to you...
By the way, does this mean there is a free kayak somewhere along I-5? Sweet. (I need to get into the faulty car rack and recovery business!)
-Andy
Highway robbery sucks.
Screw you I-5!
hey aaron...
i looked and looked...matter of fact rob was right behind me... we stopped for lunch earlier and decided that we would pull over and search...lmao
i actually got out and took a look twice... didn't see anything.
there was a decent stretch of an embankment though... if you could see it from i-5 then it was gone...
i wish i would had found it. rob was obviously excited because he was on his way to the bay area...
i'm just wondering who the hell would take a kayak off the side of a road??? strange. gypsies?
is "kim" above luke? that avatar looks kind of familiar...
luke you pervert
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