To Riversend:

If you are leaving QJ, I am sorry to see you go.  We don't live anywhere near the canoe country, so we wouldn't have been coming to the rendezvous no matter where it would have been held.  To travel to the canoe country for a get-together in January would be out of the question for us--even Duluth or the Twin Cities is too far.  We hope to make it to Madison in March, but even that is a big undertaking.

Fitting in is another situation altogether.  As another one who often doesn't "fit in" here, (albeit in for completely different reasons) I have a bit of understanding, but even so, I would like for you to reconsider.  You will be missed.  I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have looked at the wonderful photos you have posted in the middle of the winter--the wolves in the snow are coming to mind right now--and just for a minute I have felt a tiny bit of the joy you must feel to actually LIVE up there!

There is room here for all who love the canoe country.  Or so I have been told.  And just because some want to gather away from the north country, it doesn't mean that you must be an outsider, or that you must leave.

I hope you will reconsider.  I will miss you.

Lynda