Posted by rrlund on January 12, 2015 at 13:47:33 from (162.250.25.186):
In Reply to: Re: Crazy road trips posted by Greg1959 on January 12, 2015 at 13:25:06:
We rented a cabin near Beaver West Va. The wife wanted to go what water rafting. There were brochures in the cabin,so we headed down to Hinton. Looked around and found Cantrell's. We went in and asked if they had any guided trips going that day. They said no,it had been dry and the water was low so they hadn't had any trips going for the past week or so. The gal said one of the dams was open and the water was higher today,so if we wanted to go alone,they'd put us in and pick us up 8 miles down river. I looked at the wife and asked her if that's what she wanted to do,all the while thinking to myself "NO-NO-NO". She said "Hey,I came to go white water rafting". So the gal behind the counter pulled out a map and starts showing us where to be when we got to this place in the river,then get to that side and go there.......All I'm hearing are the banjo's from Deliverence. She startled me back to reality when she said "Be sure you get to this side of the river here and get out before you go over the falls". Great,I'm gonna die. I might as well just leave the keys in the truck so they can have it when they find our bodies washed up somewhere. She says they'll pick us up at the falls in about two hours. We got out on the river,it's going good for an hour or so,were wet,but alive,then the clouds start to roll in over the sides of the gorge. Lightning,thunder,it's raining hard behind us. We get to a smooth,quiet place in the river and I can hear a roar up ahead. I said "We must be coming up on the worst of the rapids she was telling us about". Unknown to me,we had already gone through those. Way over on the far side of the river,I think I see an orange sign. Then I start to remember her telling us to get out at the orange sign before we go over the falls. At that point,that river looked as wide as the Ohio. We paddled like crazy,made it to the bank just upstream from the falls. I roll out and the wife's screaming at me not to let her go over the falls!! Hey,this whole thing was her idea. It started storming like crazy just after we get the raft pulled out. There's a little park there,so we wait it out in the restroom. It was still another hour or more before anybody came to get us. I was pretty sure they had just figured no hurry,that we were probably dead anyway.
Dangdest thing is,if it hadn't been storming and they had offered to take us up and put us back in,I would have done it,now that the fear of the unknown was gone.
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