Tyler Yegerlehner
I’m a huge outdoors fan. My friend, Brian Babcock, and I love to go kayaking. We just started this hobby over the summer, but we’ve been addicted to it ever since. I have a nine foot perception kayak. It’s a pretty crappy one. Actually, out of the entire kayak selection, it’s possible that it is ‘the’ crappy kayak. It floats and carries a bit of extra weight, and surprisingly it’s quite durable so I still love it.
We live in Mt. Vernon so there not much whitewater action around but at the old dam in New Harmony there are sweet decent rapids that we practically lived at over the summer. Before we discovered this golden nugget we mainly just took our kayaks out to Hovey Lake. We explored, drank beer, drank more beer, then we explored some more. I think the only part that kept us going to Hovey was the beer.
After we acquired our new floating vessels, we planned a nice vacation in Tennessee. It was one hell of a time. We planned to go down to Chester Frost Park at Chattanooga and spend two day there kayaking, fishing, drinking, and just being on our own. On Sunday we would drive another hour to Ocoee Tennessee. There we would go on a whitewater rafting trip of extreme quality. After that we would drive the six hours back to Mt. Vernon and get drunk to top it off.
Well, the trip down there was a blast. The two days camping was a blast. While we were there we had a hellacious trip… to subway because on Friday night it had rained and we slept in a pile of water. It was extremely uncomfortable, but I enjoyed it thoroughly. So instead of trying to cook brunch around eleven we went to subway to get some quick and easy lunch. On Saturday after we came back from town, Babs and I went kayaking out to an island in the lake there we pulled up on shore and played from Frisbee. Robby was another friend that came along and he ended up causing a scene by catching his own chair and axe on fire when we left him alone at the campsite. The other campers around us weren’t too pleased having us around after he almost burnt down the surrounding area.After that we got drunk. Sunday we left early in the morning to get to our rafting place. There we waited because the first group had taken forever.
Eventually we got on the road and it turned out