Leave camp about 8.30 and with Stine's continuous array of cheesey music from her I-pod we soon arrive 3 hrs later at a swamp. We had lunch and began our tour of the swamp on boat. Our guide's name is Captain Jack, set of a little way and he tries putting the engine in full throttle but boat goes nowhere, we think its part of the tour and makes us believe we stuck out in the swamp with the alligators but soon becomes apparent that this isn't the case, so we coa...

For the majority of the day it was spent sleeping on the bus, but on the way we stopped of at the Jack Daniels distillery in Lynburg - Tennessee. Good to see how the idea for JD came about and seeing how the barrels are made etc. I wanted to buy a barrel but a couple of problems arose 1) It was to big to bring home in my suitcase and 2) the small cost of $12,000!!!!!!!!! We reached the campsite about 6ish set up camp and it was my groups turn to cook dinner - ...

Arrive at next camp site early afternoon for white water rafting at 2pm. We were taken 5miles up the mountain by an old yellow school bus with all our rafting equipment fastened on the top. Our instructor, Ryan, went through the procedures & we set of down the fast flowing river that consisted of class 3-4 rapids. At one point about 3 miles down Ryan asked if anyone wanted to "ride the bull" - meaning sitting on the raft with your legs hang over the...

Not too much today, day was spent travelling from DC - Tennessee, 460 miles. on road for about 11 hours with various stops along the way, a couple photo opportunities driving through the Aplachian mountain range sights from up there were incredible. Arrive at camp site around 8ish which we then had to set up camp before dinner as it was getting dark. while sitting around the camp fire, some locals came over & introduced themselves, Zeek and his crew, and in...

Head back into the capital for a day of sight seeing. We are dropped of near the Washington monument and head towards teh White House then make our way to the Verizon Centre, home of the Washington Wizards (Mens NBA team) & Washington Mysticsm (womens team), the Mystics were playing a pre-season friendly against New York Libertys, was a good atmosphere even though the stadium was half empty and full of kids, a Wizards game must be amazing. Mystics win 74-52...