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It was only half rainy, the other half was goooorgeous (I hope the pics I took of the clouds with Zen's camera come out well). I'd say it's six-of-one, a half-dozen of the other where you post about the day.
Can we Paypal an amount as small as $1.50?
Fun day, everyone. Mike is helping me with my aches and pains right now. I think it's going to be an early night. :cool:
F8th...sorry about your tube. Props to Kelvin for being such a trooper. Different motion of a smaller tube didn't even enter my mind when he hopped up on the orange one.
Hope Sammy enjoys her turtle, MD. Um...she may want to leave it outside for a while! :o Thanks for the pry bars....I was envisioning something a bit...um...larger. An ex used to have one that was straight and about 5 or 6 feet long. That's sort of what I was thinking, so, yeah, Zen...I can see where that concrete block from the old mailbox post will be a special challenge! ;)
No thoughts on the thread, DB. To tired, I guess.
Was nice to meet you Mad. Hope you enjoyed your day with the TE DC crowd!
I've got the turtle parts soaking in some diluted chlorine bleach.
No, I don't have one of those digging/prying bars. That's a whole 'nuther thing.
Pics are up here. I've got a few more, but I'm too tired to deal with it tonight. Nicole, I can send you the full size one of you and Sammy if you'd like. It's a pretty good one.
Don't worry about the money. Just give it to me the next time I see you.
Well, I had a little River Riders-related adventure this afternoon. I was driving down along the river between the tubing launch spot and Harper's Ferry, when way on down the road I spot two people heading towards me carrying big bright orange tubes. My first thought was that River Riders had lost some folks, and sure enough, one of the two began waving frantically as I approached them. They had apparently become separated from their friends, headed back to shore, and she had let go of her tube so they had to walk a ways along the river to get it back. I told them that they hadn't even made it to the halfway point of the trip and suggested they call River Riders to come down and get them. Unfortunately, he had given his cel phone to one of their friends to carry in the cooler-tube, but just happened to have a length of rope on him.
At that point, I did kind of wonder if they were a pair of wackos who were going to pummel me with their tubes and steal my car or something, but it was 5:45pm (remember, the last River Riders pick-up is at 5:00), he was borderline frantic and she looked exhausted. So, we tied their tubes on top of my car and I turned around to head back to River Riders. As we bounced along the crappy unpaved road, they expanded on their story.
Turns out, they didn't even make it into the rapids. They apparently paddled all the way over to the left of the calm section of the river near the Md shoreline, as directed, but then somehow ended up back over on the WV side, at which point he decided to swim to shore. And they told me that they walked a mile and a half upstream to retrieve her tube (how her tube went upstream is beyond me), then back down to the launch site where, instead of walking up the road the bus came down, they headed past the launch site and down the gravel road that heads towards Harper's Ferry. If that's the case, then they must have been wandering around for a few hours since I picked them up almost at H.F.
When we drove up at River Riders with two bright orange tubes stacked on top of my car, the look on one of the employee's face's was priceless. As we got out and began untying stuff, he was like "Uh, did you pick up some hitch-hikers?"
I didn't stick around long enough to see if they found their friends and were able to get a ride back home to DC, but at that point I figured they were River Rider's responsibility. Poor things. Thank goodness nothing like that happened on our trip!
They must not have a very good sense of direction :rolleyes:
I wonder where they were from?
I asked and was told Washington, DC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
Hooooboy! No wonder they looked anxious. They probably thought they heard banjos playing...
it was nice of you to pick them up. I hope one of their friends had the decency to wait and try to figure out what happened to them.
Heh. I had similar thoughts the first time I went exploring down in that area.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
Mad: I figured that even if their friends didn't hang around, at least there are phones at River Riders and they could call someone for help. But there were still buses coming back from the pick-up point, so it's possible the friends hadn't even come back yet. A sign that I've possibly been spending too much time in West VA: As I was listening to their tale of woe, I caught myself thinking "Sheesh. City-folk..." ;)