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Three groups of caravanning Xterras (along with a Dodge and a camping van) all left from their respective areas of the Heartland region Friday June 27, 2003, all converging on the same destination point, Jason’s campground. When the eastside group, consisting of Elroy, Buckshot, Suzyschnitz, LittleYellowShortBus, Caver, Sprince & Super_Black_Bitch, arrived many of the others were already there and had setup camp. (Yellow_Xterra_Shortbus arrived a little later with a minivan full of wood) From the Westside, there was KCX & Solar Blonde, Camp Monkey & Russ, and Azxrock flew in from Arizona and rode with Hotairx. From the Southern region, Biohazard met up with new member KarityKat and her friends, Ron, Heath, and Jeanna.

After everyone had unpacked and erected their sleeping quarters, it was time to relax and mingle with the other club members around the campfire. Many different conversations went on, as well as some consumption of alcoholic beverages. As the night went on, some members went to bed as others stayed up and mingled a bit more and Elroy’s chair ended up getting a little too close to the fire. After everything died down, it was time to head off to sleep, since the bus was supposed to be at the campsite at 8:30AM to pick everyone up.

Morning rolled around and members started waking up and getting themselves ready for the float. The bus pulled up to the campsite around 8:50AM. Everyone loaded up their coolers, dry bags, and water cannons. It wasn’t too long of a ride to the drop in point. Everyone exited the bus, removed their belongings, and started to grab canoes. Then it was time to figure out who was riding with whom. When everything was all figured out, it was time to head downstream. Not more than 10 minutes into the float, the water cannons were in full effect, no one was safe. After a little while the gunfights subsided and everyone was ready for a nice relaxing float. Around 3pm there was a pullout point on the river. Everyone thought that this must be the end. The guy on shore yelled out to us stating that it was the halfway point, and that the last bus was leaving at 6pm. Nice relaxing float was over, now it turned into paddle your ass off to make it 9 miles in 3 hours. Everyone was able to do this with exception to a few stragglers.

After the float, everyone made it back to camp, cleaned up, and started dinner. Not much went on at camp after the float, as a lot of people were pretty tired from the epic journey they took during the day.

Sunday morning, as people awoke, they started taking down tents and cleaning up the campsite. Caver made a delicious breakfast of biscuits and gravy and everyone headed back to their respective regions.

All in all, this was a great float trip. Maybe next time it could be a little shorter though.

See you at the Lakefest!!