Trying to Keep a Tradition Alive!

Need some tunes...that's better.


What the hell is happening to the River Runners?  We used to be such a strong pack.  We used to be a group we could count on every year to make the trip to just have some adult fun and enjoy the pleasure to Northern Minnesota.  What the fuck happened to us?


We are no longer that awesome group of people that hooked up once a year to float the coolest river in the state.  No one wants to go on the fucking trip anymore because...well I don't know why.  We always had such a great time just being with each other and enjoying the rustic views that the river offers.  Now everyone seems to be too damn busy with life and all that shit that come with it during the modern age.  You know what people?  Life is going to go on and there is always the following weekend or the rest of the fucking year to do what you want to do.  It is ok to take a little fucking time for yourselves to kick back, relax and has to freakin' fun.  Yet...so many people now-a-days don't see or realize that concept. 


I just don't get it...


People forget...that is the answer.  PEOPLE FORGET!! 

We live in a time where we are supposed to put everything towards our children or whatever the hell we are supposed to put our efforts for some damn thing.  Yet during that time we forget to think about ourselves.  We need this little breaks.  These little reprieves from our busy ass lives to just take a little bit of time for ourselves.  We need to have a break from the everyday shit that life just throws at us from day to day, week to week, month to month.   That is exactly what the canoe trip is about.  A time to get away from it all and just let loose and have some well deserved fun.  Fuck me!


Now that I think about it...I really don't fucking care anymore.  Sure I have had a few beers tonight but you know what, to hell with all them bitches that don't want to do this anymore.  To those that make excuses as to why they "CAN'T" make it this year I say FUCK YOU!!  You are passing up a great opportunity to just have a little GD fun.  Your loss, not mine. 


This year I'm going to make some memories that are going to last me a lifetime.  I'm going to do something that I have never done before.  I want to make this trip something that is memorable to the end.  Hahahahha...year I guess we will see.


I'm not some kind of fucking idealist that thinks I can capture what we had many years ago when we were all young and full of the shit that makes young people go.  I know that will never be what it used to be, however, I do know that even in our old age we will be able to have some of the fun that we used to have.  We can  never go back to the days when we had youth, yet we can still enjoy this thing we call life.


You don't know how it feels to be me...


You know what, I don't need anyone to keep this shit alive but me.  As long as I can get my fat ass into a canoe I am going to make this trip, even  if I am the only one to do it.  No one is going to stop me from taking this trip on Memorial Weekend.  That is the beauty of this trip.  I know that someday when my kids become old enough to make this trip that are going to carry on the tradition and this trip is going to make it to 100 years.  This is year 22, so they only have 78 to go. 


Until the next time I write I will FOREVER REMAIN...Crazy Joe.