Had a great time Saturday, tubing on the New River in the little town of McCoy in Montgomery County, near the Giles County line. It was a beautiful day, mostly sunny, it sprinkled just a little bit then the clouds went away.
For $9 you get and innertube, but in at the camp ground and float a mile down the river to the small rapids, nothing major, and you can get out before or after them, and take the bus back to the beginging as many times as you like. The water was pretty low Saturday, a couple of time I had to stand up and walk over the rocks.
Once I was to the rapids, I went thru them about a dozen times. It is set in a catarac that crosses the wide and shallow river. After a while I wade out and climbed up on the rocks to take in the scenery. The mountains and the hawks flying over them. The college age kids with their coolers of beer, the young girl going thru the rapids with her credit card in her teeth.
So where are the gay ones I thought, and soon enough here they came, two young buff guys in matching bathing suits, wading past me, to another rock, waaaaay out in the river, where they could sit side by each in private. I watched them for a long time, just sitting close and talking, often turning their faces to one another in their conversation insulated by the river. Bless them.