The Lake is a favorite vicarious vacation destination for my family. None of us make it to The Lake as much as we would like to, and when we do go we wish we could stay longer. Everyone else gets a little jealous when any of us are at The Lake. When you are there, you get phone calls from vicarious vacationers wanting to know exactly what you did today, what you ate, how’s the weather, how many boats are on the lake, whether you saw a moose, how cold the water is, even how bad the mosquitoes are.
No detail is unimportant to the vicarious vacationers, we need to know everything to make our vicarious vacation complete.
One of my favorite memories is of a Lake trip during winter. The ice on the lake was several feet thick, and had to be chopped through for water. The adults made a chute in the snow from the road all the way down the driveway, across the front yard and down to the lake. The kids flew down the chute in snow tubes so fast they were half way across the lake before they stopped moving!
Someone had the idea of trying to ride Grampa’s canoe down the chute. While no one was hurt, it didn’t end well for the canoe. I wasn't at The Lake that winter, but my uncle got it all on his 1980's era cam-corder complete with an America’s Funniest Home Videos moment when the cameraman falls while the camera is running. That was a glorious vicarious vacation!
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