I am riding in the car back from a canoe trip over this last weekend. I have been going on this trip for 35 years. This one was my first sober trip. It was just as much fun sober as it ever was drunk. I have been sober for 5 months now. I was afraid sobriety would make me or activites with friends boring. This is not the case if anyone shares this fear in wanting to be sober.
I have come to think and equate getting sober to being broken hearted. I still think about "her" in a love/hate kind of way, but as time goes these thoughts lessen, and in time acceptance that, "she" and I were not compatible. Unlike a broken hear, (this she) is always willing to take me back, so vigilance and appreciation of life sober must be maintained. Thanks to all of you who have supported me on my ongoing journey.
That’s freaking awesome John congratulations. I am always wanted to canoe, but I haven’t done so yet. Where did y’all go 
Love this for you!! Thanks for sharing
Same stretch of water for the last 35 years. Au Sable river, (Northern MI) from Grayling to McKinley) with the same 6 couple's from college. We have all missed a year or two for Kid's, work, weddings, and funerals. I am the second in the group in recovery, but the other is 15 years sober. We are all 60 years old give or take, and we are begging to question how many more years we will be able to pull off physically. 
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Right on man, very encouraging to read. Any pics from your trip?
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Congratulations and very happy for your sobriety,, life is so much better sober and free!!!!
I put a pic of my wife and I on the Au Sable river in my profile, couldn't figure out how to add to the thread.