Tubbing in Townsend

This is the second year that I have done this, but basically we rented tubes from the River Rat and for one low price you float down the river and then are bused back, float down the river and bused back... For as long as you want until 5:00pm.

Now I know that it has only happened twice, but it hasn't failed yet, someone will fall at the first set of rapids. This year it was my mom. I went with parents, aunt, and 7 year old cousin. So we thought that we would tie all the rafts together. Not a great idea. It's okay for two rafts to be tied together, but with three or more, you have a middle raft. Mom was in the middle raft and her tube got stuck on a rock. Normally an untethered tube would simply spin around and dislodge itself from the rock and continue downstream. Being a tethered tube and a tethered on two sides tube, it was in a bind. No sooner did mom's tube get caught on the rock than the force of the other tubes flipped it over. I looked back in time to see my mother going feet over face into the water.

So, word to the wise--I would recommend the fun of tubbing in Townsend to anyone. Just don't tether more than two tubes together at a time.

I love alliteration.