{"id":325,"date":"2007-06-20T09:04:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T09:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=325"},"modified":"2007-06-20T09:37:58","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T09:37:58","slug":"rolling-on-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"Rolling on the River"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I often am reminded of a song that has something to do with experiences surrounding me. <\/span>Credence Clearwater Revival\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Proud Mary<\/em><\/strong> is the song I thought of this time. <\/span>If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember anything else about that song\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6you will remember some of the words that go like this\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009dleft a good job in the city, working for the man every night and day\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6rolling, rolling, rolling on the river.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Proud Mary<\/em><\/strong> is a song about working hard but really not seeing life at it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fullest until you ride on the river.<\/p>\n

I camped with nine friends this past weekend. <\/span>Most of us were going rafting down the New River, nestled between two mountains near Beckley<\/st1:city>, West Virginia<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>. Others of us just went for the camping.<\/p>\n

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Though I was not one of the rafters, I had the unique experience if seeing them prepare the night before with an exceptional \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fireside meal by George\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and watch them in the video when they returned the next afternoon. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Now this was no calm, peaceful ride. <\/span>It was full of level four and five rapids that bordered on level six. <\/span>Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just say it was not for the weak of heart. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Since I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go rafting, several of us decided to go to the national forestry office and venture down by the river \"west-virginia-camping-trip-with-singles-in-june-2007-009.jpg\"<\/a>to see some of the rapids from the sidelines. The trip on those winding roads \u00e2\u20ac\u201c many of which were narrow one way paths through the dense forest – was amazing. <\/span>It had to be at least 10 degrees cooler there than at our campsite.<\/p>\n

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The best part of the trip was the comradery with both old and new friends. <\/span>We consumed a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153few\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bottles of wine in those two nights we were there. <\/span>We had some good stories to tell\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6many of which were shared by apparent \u00e2\u20ac\u0153expert\u00e2\u20ac\u009d storytellers. <\/span>The weather was perfect and the campfire was soothing. <\/span>We even learned how to cook a mouthwatering omelet in a Ziploc bag!<\/p>\n

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Credence Clearwater Revival was right when they suggested that things are clearer on the water.<\/p>\n

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Yes, it was a good weekend. <\/span>Next year we go to Tennessee<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> to find whitewaters there. <\/span><\/p>\n

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My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you experience life to the fullest possible extent\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6going on adventures with both new and old friends whenever you can. <\/span>You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll likely be glad you did.<\/p>\n

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~ Joellen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I often am reminded of a song that has something to do with experiences surrounding me. Credence Clearwater Revival\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Proud Mary is the song I thought of this time. If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember anything else about that song\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6you will remember some of the words that go like this\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009dleft a good job in the city, working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-events","category-parenting-families","category-retiremetn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}