Tubing on the Shenandoah River

A friend invited me to a tubing trip on Saturday. The place is Shenandoah River in Luray, Virginia, about 2 hours away from Washington, DC. So what is a tube? A tube is kind of like a donut-shaped float. Basically a group of us just took a tube each and drifted slowly down the slow river...

What made the experience so therapeutic and relaxing was that we also brought along 3 coolers worth of beer and food, which also floated down with us in their own tubes. We can paddle about, take a dip whenever we want to, or just nap under the sun while floating, or tie our tubes together to chill out together… I can’t describe how relaxing these 5 hours of tubing went!

The only downside was that being in a river all the time, it was quite impossible to bring a camera and not wetting it, so I didn’t bring my camera along. I was badly sunburnt at the end of the day despite not feeling anything at all throughout the trip… ended up looking like a red lobster! Lesson learnt: always put plenty of sun block when you are out in the sun, no matter if you feel the sun is hot or not!