As I rafted
down the Salmon River, I thought about how fun the five day river trip would
be. I was with my good friends, it was summer, and it was really warm. I had been rafting before, and this would be the longest river trip that I'd ever been on.
Even guides were really nice, except
for one. He was a little freaky. He only had one eye. He was
really mean and clumsy. Once he was steering one of the rafts and since he had one eye, he couldn’t see
very well, so he flipped the raft into a giant hole. Everyone fell out. At the time, he was also leading all of
the kayaks, so they all followed him right into the hole, and ended up swimming. Another time, after I fell out of the kayak,
he told me that if I swallowed any water, I could die. He said that there was something called
“dry drowning” where the water gets in your lungs and can kill you. When I fell in the water, I got a huge
gulp of water, and got very nervous. He made it sound like "dry drowning" was something common.
Right after the trip, he got fired.
Despite the guides, everyday brought new adventures. One day, when we got to the camp spot, we made a waterslide out of one of the rafts. Someone would run to the raft, and, right as the person was jumping to the raft, another person would pour a bucket of water on the raft. Some of the days we just rafted, but others, we would go to museums along the river.
One day, we
found a rattlesnake. It was right on our camp site, so the guides caught the snake
and put it into the river. Another
time on the second or third day, we were going to go on a tiny three foot
waterfall and we were in the raft with two guides. One of the guides was the
kid guide who everyone hated. He
was paddling the raft and just as we got to the waterfall, he flipped out of
the boat and I was laughing so hard!
To end the trip, the plane ride back was terrible. It was in a tiny propeller plane that had about three rows of seats. The pilot gave us all earplugs because the plane was so noisy. Also, the plane was not pressurized, so I had a horrible headache, and I felt that my head was going to blow up. The ride was about 45 minutes but the whole time the plane was going up and down. Then, my sister tapped my shoulder and pointed to a sticker next to me, it said:
WARNING: Maximum Weight 400 LBS
That freaked me out because there were at least 6 people on the plane, then there was all of the luggage, which was at least 400 pounds by itself. Once the plane landed, I was relieved, but I still had another 2 hours of driving to get back to Sun Valley. The drive was agonizing; I was in a tiny volvo Squished into the middle back seat for two hours. When I got to my house, I felt dizzy and sick. I was sad that the river trip was over, but happy to be done with the traveling.
Blair (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 1:16 PM
Samie
Your story is so funny. I liked how you explained the part about the drive back to Sun Valley.
Jay (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 1:16 PM
Samie,
That sounds like so much fun. Parts of that river sound so super sketchy.i love rafting.
blair (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 1:16 PM
,Blair
Ryan (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 1:17 PM
Sammie-
Your story was very well written. It kept me very entertained. You used humor in the story, and I even laughed out loud when I read it. Good job with writing this so well. I'm glad I read this, and I hope you could tell me about it more sometime. Maybe you could edit some sentences to make it make more sense, but other than that, keep it up!
Darby (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 1:23 PM
Samie,
That sounded like a really fun trip. Well except for the guides, the flight back and the drive back. It was also a very funny story. I was even laughing out loud. Great job!
-Darby
Hannah (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 1:23 PM
Samie,
I love your story about river rafting. I have also been on a trip very similar to that and I can relate to a lot of the traveling troubles. I also love the way you described the mean guide. I felt like I was there with him when you described him falling out of the raft. I also liked how you were afraid of dry drowning.
I think this was a really good story and I would enjoy reading further river rafting excursions.
Jack Goodwin (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 1:24 PM
Sammie,
That was a amazing story, the guy with one eye sounded really scary. Also the story was funny i liked how your sister pointed to the sticker and that said WARNING: Maximum Weight 400 LBS. I thought that was funny. good job
P.S the plain ride and the car ride didn't sound very fun.
Jack
Griffin (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 1:29 PM
sammie that was amazing, i think that the best part was WARNING: Maximum weight 400 Lbs
Griffin
Pierson AKA Nighthawk (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 1:32 PM
That was a great story i was almost laughing out loud. I think you can expand on the facial expressions.
GREAT STORY - pierson AKA NIGHTHAWK!!!
garrett (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 1:35 PM
samie that was a really good story. i thought it was good but you could have put more detail. it was really funny.
garrett
henry (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 1:38 PM
I like how you discribed the river guied
Keegan Whitefeathers (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 4:03 PM
Samie,
Samie that was a great story! I loved how you described the mean river guide. The way you put it he sounded really mean!
I bet your trip was so fun! It was great detail and funny. I hate when you get sick on the plane! I thought it was really funny
that your sister pointed out "Warning Maximum Weight 400 pounds" I thought that was really funny! It sounded like your trip was a lot
of fun! Keep up the good work
Your pal, Keegan!
Eliza (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 4:31 PM
Samie,
That was really good. I liked your chose of word, it gave great detail. Good job Samie
Eliza
carson AKA wilky (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 5:12 PM
carson
grate story i love the detail ilicked the WARNING: Maximum Weight 400 LBS
peace wilky
Hope Perkins (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 6:43 PM
Samie,
Great story Samie! I liked the part when the guide led into a whirlpool. I bet it was scary, though. you must have gotten really wet on that trip! Anyway, good story.
-Hope
Parker " The Beast " Jones (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 7:07 PM
Great story!!!! That plane must of stunk big time. But that river guide sounded like the WORST person ever. Amazing story!!!!!
Tripp Hutchinson code name Bob (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 7:19 PM
Samie,
that was awesome it seemed like you went through every thing bad that could happen on a river trip. The way you described that river guide made me jump right out of my chair saying "freaky." over all great story with lots of stuff happening.
Jackie!! (unauthenticated)
Jan 20, 2010 8:09 PM
Heyyyyyyyy samie i <3 your story
it was awesome. that would be scary if the maxium weight for the plane was 400 lbs and its funny how the guys with one eye got fired right after the rafting trip.
Evan Rocks!!!:) (unauthenticated)
Jan 21, 2010 1:07 PM
hey samie! first of all, could you please tell everyone not to use nicknames? It was my idea first! never mind that. That was an awesome story! i loved how you said "Right after the trip, he got fired." that made me laugh!
keep up the good work,
Evan (who...never mind. You know i rock) :)
Thomas =P (unauthenticated)
Jan 21, 2010 1:20 PM
Samie that was a super cool story i loved the part where you made a picture of the river guide. I could see him in my mind. but hew where you friends that you went with and was the kid hew flipped out of the raft the on with one eye. but other than that great story!!
Kristian (unauthenticated)
Jan 21, 2010 1:57 PM
Samie I really liked your storry. I have been on that same trip with my friends. we got float five miles in the water it was so fun. The drive is kind of long, don't you think. I think the hole river that I went on was 80 miles. We did not go with guides. We went by ourselves it was so fun. Any ways good job
Nico (unauthenticated)
Jan 21, 2010 4:43 PM
samie,
your story was great and ive been on a river trip for over 2 hours so i know how u feel. other than that your story was descriptive and i liked how you explained the part about the hole.
Nico
Olivia (unauthenticated)
Jan 21, 2010 6:10 PM
Hi Samie,
That was a great story! You were really descriptive and clear about the adventures. You explained everything great and your story had great flow. I think you could have shown a little bit more rather than told and you could have been a little bit more clear about your feelings on the trip. I think you did a great job. Keep up the good work!
Olivia
waverly (unauthenticated)
Jan 21, 2010 6:34 PM
samie
i thought our story was really funny and written well. I liked the part when you talked about the guy falling out of the raft. The guide seems really mean.
waverly
braden (unauthenticated)
Jan 21, 2010 7:02 PM
Samie
I really liked your story it had great detail and it looked like it was a fun trip. Keep up the good work
Braden
Emily (unauthenticated)
Jan 21, 2010 8:16 PM
Samie
I really like how you said the gide was mean. I think you could have added more of how the rest of the trip went. You know how you said you felt sick well i had a plane trip like that but it was 2 hour long flight. Keep writing stories.
Colby Wright (unauthenticated)
Jan 21, 2010 9:38 PM
sammie,
I really liked all of your detail and how you expressed your personality. Keep up the good work.
Colby
Lexi (unauthenticated)
Jan 25, 2010 5:51 PM
i loooooooved your story! it sounds like you had a great time! I loved your discription of the guy with one eye and the max. weight 400 pounds!
-Lex
lukas (unauthenticated)
Jan 28, 2010 1:25 PM
I really liked your story about the river trip. I have gone on a many river trips in hood river Oregon. I liked how you exclaimed that guy with the patch on his eye and how he was really creepy. Your story had a lot of details and was a great story.
Sarah (unauthenticated)
Feb 1, 2010 2:36 PM
Haha I remember that it was so fun traveling on that trip with you!! I think you summarized the trip well. But if i were you i would have included the day we went to that crazy hotsprings. But that was really good.Keep up the good work!
-Sarah
Alex (unauthenticated)
Feb 1, 2010 6:29 PM
Your story was very well written with amazing details and summarization. Keep it up!
Lilly (unauthenticated)
Feb 2, 2010 4:38 PM
Samie,
That is a cool story. It must have been really crazy, scary and cool. (Scary because of the guy). It was written really well and used lots of good words. Thanks for sharing that with use.
Lilly
sean (unauthenticated)
Feb 2, 2010 7:03 PM
that was great and it must of been fun and good details
Dane (unauthenticated)
Feb 2, 2010 7:40 PM
Samie,
I liked the part when you flipped on the waterfall. It must have been realy fun. Great details samie.
Max Tanous (unauthenticated)
Feb 2, 2010 8:40 PM
Samie that was a great story. I loved about how the sticker said 400 pounds.
Nice job.
Max