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Favorite Location to Visit I chose to display this writing for a few reasons. Even though the assignment was a descriptive essay, I didn’t do to well on it because I mainly wrote a narrative essay. So I chose this essay because it shows how descriptive I can be in writing, and how I can write a narrative. The main point of this essay is my kayaking trip on the Yough River and how the scenery and then rapids made the trip an absolute Zen for me.  If I had to name one memorable place that I have been, it would have to be the Yough River. Last summer me and my friend Darren Reed, who is also my classmate in my English class, got together with of bunch of friends and traveled to Pennsylvania. The car ride was long but it was definitely not boring, we actually stopped at Lowes and picked up a grill starter, which can also be used as a shocker. During the four hour ride everyone just sat there and shocked each other. Everyone except me, I was to busy trying to avoid getting shocked because the thought of a bolt of electricity going through my body just freaked me out. Then as the climb up the mountains began, so did the amazing views. As we climbed up the mountains the sides of the road became tall walls of slate and as you look up them, you could see the different types and how the rock aged as it went up. Then as the trip continued it became to get very foggy and it was as if we were traveling into darkness. We finally arrived at Ohio Pyle and there was just enough light to set up our tents and play a quick game of football. After we all got covered in mud from our football game, we cleaned ourselves off and went to bed.

We woke up around six in the morning, and it was absolutely freezing, the morning dew covered the ground and made it very painful to walk around outside barefoot. As we spoke to one another, we could see our breath in front of our face and the rolling fog that was coming off the water. We quickly grabbed a bite to eat and proceeded to get dressed for our day on the water. Under Armour sliders gripped my skin and warmed me up quickly as I started to put my bathing suit on and my dry top. Then we got into the car and made our way to the drop off. We arrived at the drop-off and we get our kayaks set up. I am the second to drop in and the water was amazing. It was clear as glass and every thing that was beneath us was visible to the human eye. As fish swam under us we began to paddle to the first couple rapids. It took about five minutes to go through the first three rapids and so far it was great; however it started to get a lot harder. We made our approach to Double Hydraulics. For those of you who don’t know, a hydraulic is circulating water that tries to pull you under, and when two are right next to each other, it makes a very challenging obstacle. So as I took on the rapid, it grabbed the nose of my kayak and threw it under the water. As I came up from under the water the second hydraulic just poured over my head and it made it seem as if I was a surfer in a pipeline. The rest of the river was pretty mellow and the ride home consisted of no shocking, but in turn consisted of everyone sleeping from exhaustion.