Thanksgiving Places Research Paper

I spent some time thinking of some meaningful places to me but the one that stands out the most is a table. Its not an ordinary table but rather yet a very long picnic table, one that could hold about forty people. During the summer months this table is filled with some of the most interesting and friendly people I have ever been around. For the past three years I have worked for a whitewater rafting company on one of the more challenging rivers in the Southeast. Our home base is what we call the “outpost”, its where we eat, sleep, shower, and live our lives in what some people might call a barbaric way of life. The outpost consists of about forty or so river guides that take people down challenging class four and five whitewater during the day and then come home for an evening of events at night. At the outpost we have one raft guide that has decided to lay down their paddle in order to supply the community with delicious food every night at 6. Tired from paddling on the river all day, river guides are relaxing but mostly hungry. Some are lying down in what we call “bungalows” it’s an extravagant way of describing the home
The table isn’t just a place to eat food but a home, a home that holds forty of my closest friends. Forty people who share the same values, culture, and love for adventure. The table matters to me because I know I can always come home to people who truly care about me. The value of friendship is one of the most important feelings that I feel a human can have. Finding a culture that accepts you is difficult to come by especially in our technological world today. With the use of social media and other social applications it seems that people don’t even know how to talk to each other anymore. So finding a place where I can call home every summer is very important to me. I know there will always be room for one more at the