I was on a 15 hour long rode trip from Manhattan, New York to Star
Lake, Wisconsin. Firstly, Star Lake was in the middle of nowhere, and we were driving, driving. I’ve never driven more than 20 minutes more in a car at as time. I’ve always flown, sitting in car for 15 hours to “experience the nature.” Is so much different than Business Class. they’ve never experienced any nature other than the perfectly manicured grass outside our building in upper Manhattan. “Only a couple more hours my, my mother chirped.’’
I put my headphones in and turned the volume up loud, hoping to fall into the sweet sound of Dave Matthews.
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Finally, we arrived, to the our rented log cabin. The driveway was dirt. everything was dirt, and …show more content…
the sun reflecting off the water as if it were made of diamonds. I was wearing a t-shirt and shorts my pale white skin exposed. I found myself a dry area on the bank to lay down im and that’s what I did. I could feel my skin absorbing the sunlight, it had been depried of for so long, I even began to dose off, a fifteen hour car ride can take it out of you, I guess. I began to dose slowly as if a I was sinking in to the cool mud, like I was being sucked down tonthe center of the earth. Then, I heard something a hissing and felt something too, a smooth slimy thing, slowly coiling, solwly coiling around my leg. My eyes snappend open, it was a snake! A shimmering silver one. When it saw me staring at it, its eyes became small green slits in its face and its body became straighter, harder, ready to strike. I wanted to scream. Now, I know why I did not want to “experience the nature” the nature was dangerous an unforgiving beast. I would have given anything for Turks and Caicos right now. The scream built i. Side me as the snake sized me up. I head something else to a splashing noise, I saw a shaddow abkve me before I saw it. God, could it be a bear? Being piosened by a snake abd eaten by a bear that would be my luck, all the while, the snake keot tighting around my leg, it hac started to go numb. I opened my mouth to scream even if it was only to the trees, maybe my