Current River... Descriptive Essay

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It was in the summer of 2001 peacefulness was all I felt. The trees filled with dry green leaves, the grass looked as if it were fading away as patches of yellowness gave it a dried burned look. The streets were so hot I could’ve fried an egg on them. This truly was mid-summer. Around the hottest time of the year, my church youth group goes on a camping trip to Current River. I, among 12 other youths and leaders enjoy this yearly camping trip. The trip not only helped people in distress but to also give an insight on personal faith, life, love, friendship, and a better understanding on why we are really here and why we have chosen to come here, as certain personality traits that we possess are revealed throughout the trip. I do remember the last year's trip very clearly, and we've had just a few major dilemmas, but this year just clearly out does last year in every way, shape and form. The drive to cross the Missouri border seemed it had taken hours of strenuous patience to finally arrive in another state, but that was just the anxiety of a teenage boy. The view was by far country like as hints of cow manure could be smelled far from a distance. We drive through small towns, half the size of ours, which amazed me. The scenery had overwhelmed us, as lumps of Earth from a great distance turned to perfectly molded hills, but as we got closer and closer to our destination the hills no longer were hills anymore, instead the hills had transformed to massive mountains of various sizes. These mountains surrounded our every view as if we had sunken into a great big deep hole of green pastures. It seemed as if we were lost in a maze following the twists and turns of the cork-screw path called roads. Finally, we took the mind boggling windy road that crept up the mountain into our recreation center for which we would spend one entire week. We unloaded our luggage and

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