Oh goddamn am I ever sore. We went out to Saltsburg again today and kayaked for almost six hours. I’ve only ever kayaked once before mind you, and that was just like maybe 2-3 hours. But this, this was WAY over the top. I’m so outrageously hurting now. My arms, shoulders, neck. I tried laying down before, but it hurt too bad. But then I took a shower, and am now feeling a little better. It was a good trip though overall. We saw a deer cross the river. I hit a million and one rocks. We got Busch beers from three dudes fishing. One of them was a Marine, going back to Iraq in June. My brother asked him if there were any cute girls in Iraq. He said there were some. I’m listening to some Neko Case.

It’s really weird when you’ve been on the river all day. It changes you somehow. You get used to certain kinds of cues and your attention wraps completely to what you’re doing. Then, when you take out at your final stop, it’s really weird. We stopped at a little town called Apollo. It was confusing to be at a town which you had neither walked or driven to. Plus, your mind is all cooked from being in the woods and on the river all day, and you totally forget about things like traffic laws and other arbitrary rules of non-river life.