Bob was a teenage boy that was tired of listening to everything his parents told him to do. Bob told his father that he was going to leave. His father responded by yelling and saying that he needed to stay and help with everything around the house. Bob said that he was going to live and go be a hobo.

Bob went for a walk in the woods to clear his head and decided he was not going to go back. He walked straight into poison ivy. Bob went down to the river to wash it off and found that the river keeps flowing and so should he.

Bob found a bum in a tent. He asked the bum if he could live with him for a little bit. The bum said that it was fine, and so he stayed with the bum.

Bob lived with the bum for a solid seven weeks before he started not liking the bum as much. He started to miss the nice qualities of his old life and started getting in fights with the bum. He told the bum that he wanted some real food instead of all the garbage they had been eating.

The bum, after long consideration, decided to kick Bob out and make him go live at home. Bob told her that he would do whatever she wanted, but she told him to take a hike and get lost!

Bob left and told the bum that he never would see her again and yelled a bit. He took the last of his food and left the tent that he had been living in for the past seven weeks.

Bob decided that the best thing to do would be to go home, so he found a road and started heading home. He was picked up by an old man who gave him a ride almost all the way back to his house. Bob went inside and his father was glad to see him safe.

When we got back to the Cote house, we finished our school work. I then experienced the world’s best kayaking movie. If you have yet to see Dream Result, go get it RIGHT NOW! I refused to get up from the floor to eat dinner until the movie was over.

NOC shoot-out is the next competition, at the Nantahala Outdoor Center, where we will demolish in all categories. Tomorrow we will be running the Tallulah again. I will have the opportunity to run Oceana once more and look death in the face. Afterwards, we will drive four hours to North Carolina. They tell us that we are going to run the Tallulah twice tomorrow, but I guarantee that we won’t have time. If they make me sign one of those lame waiver forms again, I’m going to blow up.

For the past few days, we have been enjoying the beautiful Niagara falls from the Canadian side. We stayed at the Skyline Hotel and from there we were able to walk to the falls and other major tourist attractions. The first night we all went out and had a great time riding the rides and seeing the falls which were lit up by all these magnificent colors. The next morning we went to meet a girl named Jessica  Droujko, who is thinking about coming to the New River Academy for the second semester. Her father owns the Niagara Helicopter Tours that flies people over Niagara falls. We were planning on taking a helicopter ride but are plans were cancelled on account of the wether. Instead, we took a tour of the helicopters. Following that, by the hospitality of the Droujkos, we were treated to a free tour of the city, including the wax museum, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum and Ripley’s Moving Theater. Finally, we went back to the helicopter pads where we ate a complimentary Helicpoter Cafe lunch.

Thats me on corner wave of the Ottawa River

The drive up to Canada was the worst drive of my life! But the drive was well worth it. We arrived at the border around 11:00 am. We made it to the cabin at about 3:00. I will be getting settled in to my new bunk at my new home for the next three weeks.

My first trip down the Ottawa was such an adrenaline rush. I have learned so much on this trip and in the past couple of days with my new school. The river up here has some of the best and biggest water I have been in since the Gualey.

I hope that with my upcoming school year I can run a lot more whitewater then before.