BOTE Presents // Get Away

BOTE Presents //
GET AWAY

STORY: Corey COOPER
PHOTOGRAPHY: Sean Murphy 
VIDEO BY: LIVE WILD STUDIOS

It's a challenge. Balancing work and leisure, raising your kids, focusing on the simple things that really matter. For the majority of us, myself included, the struggle to do so is very real. But in reality, it's the accumulation of these diverse events that make you who you are.

Growing up, I spent a lot of my time at my grandparent's house in the woods. Playing in the dirt, hunting for food, and spending time with family were not only the basis of how I spent my childhood, but also the building blocks for who I am as a person.

As I grew up and moved away to bigger cities and spent more time in the office than in daylight, I began to really appreciate the lifestyle that living in the outdoors offered.

Now, with three kids, I realize the importance of exposing them to the simpler life.

Teaching them to work with their hands and step away from our technologically oversaturated world is not easy, but I find that when we leave our everyday lives, step off the grid, and just enjoy each other's company and everything nature has to offer, it brings us back to the fundamental basics of what it's all about.

old downtown of country town
BOTE paddle board hat
Mom and Son paddle boarding - BOTE Breeze Aero
Side By Side with BOTE paddle board on roof
puzzle on farm table
Child in farm lake with BOTE Breeze Aero
chopping firewood
riding motorcycle on farm
building deck on farm
cutting brush with chainsaw
country family on old farm swing
broken bottle guitar slide
Playing guitar by a fire
shucking corn
corn field
hunter with scope
hunter in rifle in field
Side by Side with BOTE paddle board
Siblings running through field lane
Siblings standing on hay bale
Mother and Son
Child in Motorcycle Helmet
Father and Son
Child on rope swing
Mom and Son paddle boarding - BOTE Breeze Aero
Mom and Son using BOTE paddle boards

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