Hiking Backpack Zone

Every summer we would float down the river near our small central valley town. Who could not resist enjoying the cool water and warm sun. We usually had many friends or family on these trips down the river as it was low cost fun and a break from the household chores.

On this particular weekend, we gathered a group of 11 rubber doughnut drifters to adventure the river and beat the heat. Several beach coves made perfect water parking lots for hanging out, swimming, and just relaxing.

My wife and I enjoyed this type of recreation years before we married and this was our first trip down the river as married tubers. It generally felt the same except for my new titanium wedding ring.

This ring was picked out by my wife and it was perfectly chosen to reflect my adventurous spirit. A titanium wedding ring with three off-center grooves skate across a dazzling flat profile band. The frosting finish gives it the look of the artic.

Anyway, floating down the river this day we stopped at the halfway point at our groups favorite beach area. We layed about for a time and then finished our journey down the rest of the river. Having fun and not thinking twice about the cold water and how it can shrink up your extremities, I did not realize that my ring slipped off my finger until we were getting out of the river for the day.

We had a terrific day of tubing down the river that was clouded by the loss of my new wedding band. It did not make for a happy wife which of course makes for an unhappy husband.

A couple of weeks go by and we decide to take the trip down the river again. Traveling to the same beach area, we hang out for a short period while a second group catch up to us. Now, I would not believe this myself if it were not happening to me, but as I lay on my tube and glanced down, under the water, in the sand partially embedded was my titanium wedding ring no worse for wear. My wife was elated about the recovery.

Incredible odds to get it back the way I did. I lose it, I find it, 2 weeks later in the river! I have told that story countless times on any occasion the subject of small world impossibilities comes up. It was truly an incredible titanium ring recovery.