On the Comal
Hello fellow idyll-ers! (aka my 1 friend reading this) This weekend we returned from a spontaneous trip to New Braunfels, where we spent Saturday floating on the Comal River, the longest shortest river in the world . The five of us mistakenly assumed that since schools had started in the previous week, perhaps the demand for floating had died down. Well, we were VERY wrong. As far as the eyes could see, tubes were packed in like sardines. Colorful little donuts filled with mostly early-to mid twenties people, it seemed like everyone on this side of Houston was fed up with the heat and had decided to cool off. Picture from "Play in New Braunfels". There were FAR more people than this. Of the five of us, three (including me) were first-time tubers, so we made a few very basic mistakes. Although we did manage to snag a parking spot right next to the river (for FREE!) at the tubing place we went to, we quickly ran aground when our cooler was inspected and found to contain... di...
