People from Florida like to come to the North Carolina mountains in the summer because it is cooler and there are fun things to do, like river kayaking. The long weekend of July 20, 2019, Deena Thomas’ grandchildren Mileena, age 13 years, and Tre, age 9 years, came to visit us. Monday morning we decided to go kayaking on the South Fork of the New River in Ashe County. We started at Zaloo’s Canoes on NC Hwy 16 south of NC Hwy 88 and paddled north east to the Wagoner Access State Park.