A Wild but Good Friend -Part 1
Part 1 - An Interesting Canoe Trip A friend of mine “Joel” called me up on Friday, at around midnight one-night last August. All excited, he said his dad would let us borrow his canoe the next day if we took care of it. Not knowing anything about this, I just said: “well OK, what the hell, it might be fun”. Saturday came around and was it fuck’n hot out, In the ’90s and it was still in the morning. I stopped by my friends’ house and there he was waiting out front with the canoe and a big cooler. Him still being all excited he just says “let's go, let's go”! We load the stuff in my old pick up and headed out. We headed down to an old side road (kind of in the middle of nowhere) where there’s a small bridge over a small to medium sized river. We unloaded the canoe and tossed everything in it and set out. By this time, we were both down to nothing but our shorts, it was HOT! We both grabbed a Gatorade from the cooler and set out paddling downstream. I sat in th