Wednesday night prior to dinner, when Cody and Ryan were bouncing off the walls.
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Cody
I think this trip will be fun. I think Ryan will flip his canoe. I will not help him. I will be laughing so hard I would not be able to. This trip will also be very long. It is like 60 miles. A good thing about it is that I will be in the paper. A guy named Matt is hooking me up with a column. I want to do this but I am afraid I will get really sunburned but I have sunblock. I can't wait to go tomorrow. Now I have to go eat. I will write more tomorrow.
Ryan
I am anticipating a nice trip and hopefully nobody will get hurt or starve. We should be done in a few days but if something should go wrong, we will get pretty hungry. We will be able to do lots of things on the trip like looking at scenery, eat, eat and eat. I don't think Cody will make it. I think he will eat all his food in two hours. He won't be paddling at all and he'll get bored in two minutes. I think I will love the trip. I will conserve my food and I will last longer than him. I also think he doesn't have the physical ability too, but I could paddle the whole way by myself.
Wednesday night after to dinner, when Cody and Ryan were bouncing off the walls.
Cody
Ryan is so stupid he is retarded. He will probably fall out of his canoe when it is in shallow water. If he threw a rock at the ground he would miss. I guess I should start being nicer to him. Just because he has no friends and gets picked on. "Yeah, Right!" If I hung out with him I would be the laughing stock of Texas. Ryan is kind of like a pet, but I don't know if he is easier to take care of. At school he is in all special classes. He even gets picked on by special ed kids. He has no friends. He is only good for one thing - playing with. He is up for every game.

I am so bored with writing. I think I need to save some for tomorrow, so I'll write this:
I
I am
I am writing
I am writing this
I am writing this to
I am writing this to take
I am writing this to take up
I am writing this to take up space
I am writing this to take up space because
I am writing this to take up space because I'm
I am writing this to take up space because I'm bored.

Ryan
I have to write another page because I was acting like a monkey, as Uncle Andy calls me. It all started when Cody got sprayed by the squirt bottle. He wiped it off on my sleeping bag so I wiped it on his sleeping bag. Uncle Andy yelled at us sort of and threatened to make us write. Of course we didn't stop so here I am writing. I have now run out of ideas so I am writing what I think.
I only have 5 lines left to do.
Correction, I now have four.
Correction, I now have three.
Correction, I now have two.
Correction, I now have one.
Correction, I ran out of lines.

We are going to use 3 homemade canoes. Uncle Andy made 2 and we made one. We are getting a photographer to take our picture for the newspaper. We will start our epic adventure tomorrow. We will end our adventure in two days hopefully.

Thursday lunch stop at Wheatland Ferry, 12:30pm after 3 1/2 hours of paddling covering 12 miles
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Cody
I am so cold I don't know if I'll make it. I hope this part seems shorter. I can't wait to eat. It will be a lot of fun. G+G!
Ryan
As you can see, my book got wet somehow. So far the trip has been hard but OK.
Thursday night, 10pm after 12 hours of paddling, covering 29 miles.
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Cody
So far the expedition has been long and treacherous. We didn't get to camp until 10:00. I am hiding in my sleeping bag writing this. Uh oh, I just farted. I am about to eat, that should be fun and I will write more later.
Ryan
Now the trip is ruined. We are sleeping on a dock and it is 10:00pm. We haven't eaten, but Uncle Andy is cooking. I am pretty tired now.
Friday morning prior to embarkation
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Cody
I slept like a rock, now am eating breakfast. It is so good. Here are some pictures of my trip. (at the end of this page)
Ryan
I
I hate
I hate to
I hate to write
I hate to write because
I hate to write because its
I hate to write because its boring.
That's what I've got to say.
Friday 11:30, after 3 hours of paddling covering 5 miles. Final thoughts at the end of the trip.
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Cody
This whole trip has been an adventure, we've seen all kinds of animals and met all kinds of folks - some retards that led us in the wrong direction. Now that it is over and we are famous in the paper, I think this was a successful trip. We went 40 miles in 1 and 1/4 days. We got in the newspaper and people gave us free stuff. Now I liked it except for the cold. I had fun.

Ryan
We got out early and that was it. Hopefully the newspaper people won't find out. They could say something like "Wimps Fake to Get Into Newspaper." We did go 39 miles out of 60. We messed up and ruined the trip. I still think it was quite the adventure, though. This is something I'll never forget.
Images

Cody
Montage of wildlife

Grandma and Papa plus the H3 with canoes

Reporter and Ryan under canoe

Ryan
Crew in the H3 loaded with canoes
Meeting Andrea Write
Night camp
Sleeping under canoes
Meeting Dan De Carbonel