June 15, 2005
DREAM TRIPS
Puddyhead and I were hunkered over a bottle of vodka about ten years ago, trying to figure out the Next Big Thing, and I came up with the Rivers. The idea was, we would take his Grumman canoe, and launch it at the headwaters of the Ogeechee River, between Greensboro and Crawfordville, Georgia, and ride it to the ocean. Take video cameras, 35mm, memorialize the event. Possibly flip it unto an article for Nature or National Geographic. That is a sweet river, unheralded.
The follow up would be a trip down the Suwannee River, from the Okefenokee Swamp headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico. We were thinking serial documentaries here.
The idea reverberated for a few months, never came to fruition. A damned shame. We were fucked up as bugbears at the time, but the idea obtains. The Ogeechee River. Prolly 200 miles as the crow flies, 380 as the River meanders.
I want to make that trip, still. The Geechee one. Suwannee later. I still have Puddyhead on board. Another two peeps, another canoe...
It will be like Deliverance, without the buttfucking.
.. I'm in...
Posted by: Eric at June 15, 2005 10:17 PMI went down about half of the Ogeechee, it was wild, we just took food and booze and almost killed ourselves twice. The bad part is the river drys up about 20 from Eden GA and we had to drag that damn boat 5 fucking miles. The ticks and snakes almost ate us alive. I did a canoe trip in North GA once and it was better, more water, less snakes. If you go, I will go with you, just stay way from my cute ass, Cat
Posted by: Catfish at June 15, 2005 11:48 PMFive miles of portage, ticks, snakes, and guys with hames like Elmer who force you at gunpoint to drop trou and squeal like a pig?
I'll meet you guys at an air conditioned saloon at the end of the river.
Posted by: Jim - PRS at June 16, 2005 3:41 AMDude, you better take that trip and lots of pics for those of us who would like to and can't.
Posted by: Kelly Drennan at June 16, 2005 2:53 PMYeah, I'll wait til the movie comes out. I might consider one of those trips where they pamper you and have a gourmet meal and camp already set up for you at scheduled stops. And whores. That row for you, and fetch you cold beers.
Posted by: Bane at June 16, 2005 3:13 PM