Grow Out of Fun, Grow Old | Idaho Summer, Rock Climbing & Baby News
About this episode
James and Cara discuss their summer in Idaho, rock climbing, and the importance of maintaining a sense of fun as we age.
We gently told a friend that we didn't care what she thought about the water slide. We meant it. We're two and a half weeks into our Idaho summer, and it's already full. The paddleboards we bought back in Iowa finally got wet, we started rock climbing on a bolted route behind our son's house, and we watched our grandson fall completely in love with a battery-powered Little Blue Truck. But the thread that actually runs through this whole episode is permission. Somewhere between the water slides and the rock climbing, we landed on the same idea we keep landing on: most of us quietly stop having fun the second someone implies we're too old for it, and we're done doing that. We also crack the door open on something new: a mindset-shift series we've been sitting on for months. What You'll Hear in This Episode: Why we finally got to use the paddleboards we bought in Iowa, and the permit and life jacket rules nobody warns you about Sharpening our skills: rock climbing, and belaying on a bolted route behind our son's house, mossy holds and all Fourth of July, the 250th birthday of the United States, and watching fireworks with our grandson from the Overlook The mechanical marathon of…
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