After selling our kayaks over a year ago in preparation for fulltiming, then my whining all summer about missing kayaking, then seeing the inflatables demonstrated at the Spring Rally - we caved and went back and got kayaks again.

This time we got them much shorter: mine is 2 ft. shorter than the one I had in my avatar picture and 3 1/2 feet shorter for my husband, and bigger ****pits for our getting older butts to fit into easier

We still had the rack for the Jeep wrangler (which we are bringing fulltiming anyway) and they fit perfect side by side on the closed cell foam saddles. We also kept our wet suits, dry bags and I still had my paddle. So we got new life vests and Defiant got a new paddle.

We are planning going out next weekend to take a much needed break from house purging every weekend

We are thrilled at the prospect - and now have completed our cheap entertainment: hiking, biking and kayaking - for fulltiming.