After arriving at Erik’s house, Taylor kissed his girlfriend goodbye. When we go inside we are affectionately kissed and jumped on by Erik’s dogs. After watching TV and eating the pizza Eric cooked, we waited for the rest of the team for tonight’s adventure to arrive. Finally, Caleb and the rest of the crew showed and we prepared the battle van for the evening. We stopped for gas and six of us stuffed ourselves into the five person battle van. We were off to Lynden to investigate the claims regarding “The Goatman.”…
While out late with a bunch of friends on a Friday night, David is ready to leave. He is starting to see double of everything and can’t interpret others speaking. His mind is jumbled. The only thought still lingering in David’s mind after having 12 Budweiser’s and 20 shots of liquor, was his bed. David only wanted to go home to his nice cozy bed where his pregnant wife would be waiting up for his 1 a.m. arrival. As David stumbles through his crowd of friends, many of them stop him and offer rides, but he refuses. With only 7 miles to drive home, David hops in his Dodge. Step by step he takes five minutes to get his car prepared for the trip. The car is started, the lights are on, and his seat belt is fastened. David gradually…
So we decided to go find somewhere to park the boat for lunch. Eventually we found this really cool cave that had plenty of room to put the boat under, and we got out the sandwich stuff. It’s kind of a tradition we have to have sandwiches when we go boating or snowmobiling. So we got out the bread, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, meat, and pickles along with the fruit salad, and Powerades. After I had finished eating I got bored and decided to go for a swim, so I cannon balled in, and the water was even warmer inside of the cave! I just laid back on my lifejacket and floated, it was so…
The poignant feeling of anticipation and excitement enthused us as we piled into Grandpa’s old beat up van. A sense of invincibility enveloped us as we started our twelve hour trek to Branson, Missouri. This serenity soon shattered when Luke began to throw up all over my seat. I sat horrified, trapped by the luggage in front of me. “Stop the van!” I screamed. Covered in bright pink Double Bubble puke, I bolted from the vehicle. I had tried to warn Luke earlier, but he did not listen. As the twentieth piece entered his mouth, my predictions turned into reality. After the ordeal, we cleaned up, loaded into the van, and started our journey once again.…
One night in August of 2014, my mom, Mika and I grabbed a flashlight and walked out the door into the dark night. My mom flipped on the flashlight and shone it on the bumpy path before us so we didn’t accidentally step into a ditch or trip on anything in the way. Normally nobody ever did much in the village after dark, but tonight was special.…
I was only twelve when my great adventure took place. Keelan and Matthew Daniel, known to many as the definition of rednecks, or to me as trouble, were honestly my best and only friends in our quaint neighborhood. The occasional tag along was a petite blonde girl named Kinley who went to a different school than us three, leaving her living situation the only thing we all…
In the well defined world of Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace’s speculative America is filled with many political riddles that reach no conclusion. Alone, they stand as a critique on the consumerism and absurdity of contemporary America, yet are politically disenfranchised from foreign relations. As a part of O.N.A.N, the Organization of North American Nations, America’s largest relationship with a foreign nation is Canada, where a variation of separatist political groups viie to separate themselves from America. The most notorious and infamous of these separatists are Les Assassins en Fauteuils Rollents, or AFR, a group of assassins who are all wheelchair…
As we were going down the river there was a log in the river it was barely poking out of the water. Everyone avoided the log except for Sam and Jack. They crashed into the log and their canoe flipped and all their gear tumbled out. One of the troop’s bins popped open and some of the cooking supplies fell out and Timmy had to swim and retrieve all the missing pieces of equipment. As Timmy was retrieving everything rain clouds started to form and it started to drizzle then we heard thunder and saw lightning so we had to stay on the beach for thirty minutes until the rain passes. Thirty minutes turned into an hour and an hour turned into two hours. So to pass the time we raided the snack bag and ate almost all the snacks. There was another group from a camp that had to stop on the bank and there was probably 300 kids on one small bank. After the rain passed we were all soaking wet. We were soaking wet all the way back to the canoe shop. Then when we got there we had to pack up and we started home. Another 7 hours back…
Bob became very overwhelmed with excitement and opened the door of the car. The man smiled and walked closer to the car, “ Would you like to take it for a test drive?”…
We all swam and got our poles and began fishing. I swam out to the raft and began to bait my hook Jack just got out and swam and fished and John went to the dock. At about 6ish we had a few fish in the live trap nothing to big. I was changing my hook leaving my line in the water looking at my tackle box trying to figure out what to use when my pole shot toward the water. I quickly grabbed it and my line began to wine. I set my hook and my pole was bent an extreme angle. I was using my large fish pole so I was lucky in that sense it took me over a half hour to reel it in, it was a large pike. That was my last fish of the night and began to clean all the fish while Jack and John got the fire started. We cooked at ate the fish while we just sat till almost midnight. At the end of the night, we all went home, Jack got in trouble because he was supposed to be home at…
Controlling the car wasn’t as easy. DJ was too little and he couldn’t see out the windshield. He had to place the backpack underneath him to be able to see, but then he couldn’t reach the pedals, so LT had to brake and accelerate for him, while DJ steered the car.…
I fell on the boat ramp laughing my tail off. Finally, we got our boats in the water and started packing them down with our supplies. I have never seen so much supplies for a one day trip. We had to make about five trips to get everyone down there and our supplies on the sandbar which is called Little Sugar Loaf. We had about 13 people on that sandbar we were staying that night. We started out by finding a spot and setting up our tents. It didn't take me that long to set up my tent. I mostly helped other set up their tents and sleeping bags and other supplies. There were about four kids that had to carry wood for the fireplace. While others were setting up the grill and lights for tonight. The sun was so hot I was about ready to get in the cool muddy water. I got my chores done for the tents and my buddies and I went swimming in the…
Fortunately, I had to carry all the light supplies like marshmallows and towels. We walked about four miles into the overgrown weeds and prickers until there was a small parting in the greenery. I sat on a log near the firepit and watching Chloe and Lexy set up the tents. A few hours of adventuring and partying went by it was now nightfall. The fire had been lit, by then it was pitch black out only the fire lighting up our faces. Freshman year we started playing the game one truth and two lies, a childish game we played out of boredom. We had been playing for about thirty minutes before we got bored and it was the last turn of the game. Lexy grinned “I’ll go, I have a fish named Tom, I have a trampoline, or I am a Serial killer.” We all laughed at the idea of Lexy being a Serial killer then chloe spoke up, “it’s the trampoline I know it!” she smiled knowing she got it correct. Lexy shook her head, “Alright, then the fish named Tom.” I said hesitantly. She shook her head again at that moment Chloe and I stopped laughing and stared at Lexy. After two minutes Lexy spoke up “Honestly, I was out shopping I had a 50% off coupon and the man at the register wouldn't take it! We fought for five minutes then I left, but I waited till…
I was walking home that night I saw the old abandoned building. I had to take a different route this time because there was construction going on the sidewalk. I and my friend Shawn were walking home because he was spending the night at my house and the next morning we planned to go to Kings Island. Shawn hadn't been there in a while so we decided that going there would be fun.…
"Ready, We should get going before it's too late." My dad crackled. I smiled and thought to myself," I never have been more ready in my entire life!" Alright let's get going then. I bolted to the car and impatiently waited for my dad to unlock the car. As I heard the wonderful noise of the lock snapping open, I imagined how Florida would be. The moment I opened the door I zoomed into my seat and slapped my seatbelt over me as fast as…