The Theory of Relativity: Hidalgo Falls Trip Report
In post-Einstein life on this rock flying through space - life where people still find ways to complain about the weather, their job, and those political parties deemed perpetually terrible instead of being thankful for the flying rock - there are things that are absolute and things that are relative.
Time is relative, right Albert? Time varies based on how fast you’re moving.
While my knowledge of science gets pretty hazy at anything above 8th grade introductory physics, time on the river has made me an expert at noticing the skewed perception of time’s relativity and some real-world applications that my man Dr. E narrowly missed discovering over one hundred years ago.
The Relativity of Alarm Clock Reception
I’m not a morning person; far from it. However, the old school buzz – now rivaled on the radio under the over-glorified Dub Step genre - that I have programmed to play every morning at 6:30am is uncharacteristically welcomed on paddling trip mornings. The alarm sounds, I shoot out of bed, get ready, and hit the road in the time that it usually takes me to start a good game of Hide and Seek with my snooze button on a normal weekday.
This Saturday was no different. My plans to paddle Hidalgo Falls - a protected section of the Brazos River through the Texas Rivers Protection Association access point in Navasota – had been circled on my calendar for a couple weeks now to the point of bleeding through onto the next page like a school girl feeding an overwhelming highlighter addiction. Excited was an understatement. Read More >>>