I don't like to swim. I get seasick when I cross the English channel or when I go whale-watching. I even prefer to drink Diet Coke (or Paso de los Toros!) to water. But I love to be near the water. I like the way the pool outside my house in Texas casts prisms of color on the ceiling.I love the sound, the feel, the very waterness of water. We're practically surrounded by water here in Montevideo.
I even like canoeing or rafting on it, I who am the antithesis of an athlete.
We (the 14 of us who went to Peru for Spring Break)
went rafting on the Urubamba River outside of Cusco, and we had a great time. The Urubamba, by the way, goes to Machu Picchu, and it runs into another river that then runs into the phenomenol Amazon River. We rafted for about 2 1/2 hours, but the trip took all day, what with the hour-and-a-half bus ride each way, the delicious lunch they fed us, the instructions we received in order not to die on the rapids, and the putting on and taking off of wetsuits.
In about a week and a half, we will go to Brazil and see Iguaçu Falls. More water. I love it.
