*************WARNING LONGEST ENTRY EVER********************
Talk about a kick ass weekends! I haven’t had so much fun in a way long time. (With the exception of my bday) I’m only going to cover Ditch for now mostly because its a long ass tale. Basically all the big brothers get dropped off in down town Terre Haute around ISU, and we have a scavenger hunt of things to find all while we are trying to get back to the house by midnight. The Trick is our little Brothers are chasing us down the entire time. It was great! My group started off at 5 people it was both my roomies wojo and ramzy. We begain with a brisk jog through most of ISU collecting items as we saw them making pretty good progress.
Eventually we came to this HUGE IM field and we decided it would be best to split up and run around it in two different directions. Groups of 5 are easy to spot. After much fence hopping we eventually make it to this intersection, and we see ty and wojo off in the distance behind us, and another group of brothers way in front. Suddenly 4 cars come driving up the road, and we’re like oh shit. Being a pretty much unused rode 4 cars is an unexpected sight. So we’re like be cool, and we keep walking. Suddenly the cars turns around and start driving towards us.
SHIT! We all run. Vince Ramzy and I run in to this divided parking lot with this white car chasing us down. We keep jumping over dividers so it cant get close, bobbing around trees. Soon we get past the parking lot to an area without a road leading to it, and we book it in to this new parking lot we discovered. We hid here for a while until we spotted this guy stairing at us from a window. We’re like shit better get out of here, as soon as we say this security guards start surrounding us and we’re like crap, we made our half attempt at apology and got out of there. Apparently we were in a private lot that became fenced off minutes after we entered. We get our asses out of there and start following the rail road tracks heading north.
Its now Vince ramzy and me, wojo was caught and we lost Tyler. After numerous abandon allys later and one really cool unused brick road we get near some craptacular houses and spot the Walgreen’s. Sweet! Walgreen’s we can get the condoms we need for the scavenger hunt there. We pick up the pace till suddenly one of the associates in a red car drive past. They stopped quickly and we book it. Vince runs to the left, Vegas and I run to the right. We’re basically in this little housing area that has a bunch of small little alleys between buildings. The Car zooms close we dive in to the alley and run to the other side. The car circles around and comes at us from a different side. We duck in to a different alley and run. We play cat and mouse for at least 10 minutes. Soon we see the car at one side of the housing area and we’re at the other.
We booked it! We run forever, Through abandon lots and alleys, in to peoples backwards. Dogs are barking everywhere and we’re praying to god no one spots us. Pledges or Police. Now we’re like a half mile from Walgreen’s and its just me and Vegas. Luckily we got a call from Vince telling us he was in Walgreen’s waiting for us. We tell him we’ll be there shortly. We jog hiding behind anything we find, avoiding any car that we see. It takes like 10 minutes but we finally get there.
Success! we got Pictures of us with condoms and a Walgreen’s employee. Its back to Vince and Ramzy and I. After some paranoid though process we manage to leave Walgreen’s after we’re careful to make sure no one was staking it out. Its time for the land of milk and honey, the land where no associate would think to look. Yes I mean Chris and Mikes place. We jog till get to Wabash cross it and thank god we’re safe. Associates never cross to that side of Wabash I have no idea why. We get to Chris and Mikes unscathed have a nice little bathroom break and a drink of water and decide to continue on our way.
We get a picture of “The Speak Easy” and decide the hell with the scavenger hunt its time to get back to the House. So we run to the Heritage trail. We’re more paranoid than ever at this point. So we figured we should say north of the Heritage trail since it’s a hot spot for associates. So we run even farther north and start walking this craptastic road back towards school.
After more walking we hit this junk yard like area. Ok this isn’t so bad can’t go East anymore so we turn North avoiding heritage and walk for a while. Soon we can go East again So we keep walking. About half a mile later guess what another Dead End. Shit! We had to go North again. This happens another 3 or 4 times, Joy. Eventually we leave the Junk Yard area and come to the Forest that separates us from Home. Now this isn’t a small forest. We are at least 6 miles from where we need to be, and none of us want to enter that forest with no clear path and no flash light. So we continue the only direction we know. North. Damn you NORTH!!!! Always taking us farther away from where we want to be.
Finally the forest thins a bit and we can see light through the trees so its time to enter and cross it. Oddly enough we hit a terrain park of all things. It was very cool, made me wish I had a bike. Actually I wish I had a bike for more than one reason at this point. We’ve traveled prolly 3 or 4 miles since Chris and Mikes. So We were getting pretty tired. We emerged from the woods on the other side and to our delight. A FUCKING RIVER!!!
I HATE THAT RIVER SO MUCH!!! We couldn’t go eat again. But now at least we could go south. It’s starting to snow now. We walk some more through the forest following the river occasionally seeing some houses. All while contemplating how perfect this situation was for a horror movie.
A little while we spot access east again and thank whatever god was looking over us. Also according to Vince we saw the coolest sign ever. “No Dumping” I guess everything was pretty funny on hour 3 of our Viet Cong Death March.
A little while later we hit FRUIT RIDGE the last border of civilization before the true wilderness that is the forest to Rose. For some reason we decide we still need to hide from freshman. We walk up Old Maple Road. Maple Road is this small road through the forest that isn’t lit, is balls long, and pretty much abandon. Joy… We continue on with our Death March. The snow is coming down really hard now. We all look like Snowman.
Nothing really eventful happens at this point. Mostly because this is the most none descriptive road ever. So I’m just going to fast forward 4 miles and say we’re Entering the Bat Cave. This is the deserted road leading to the back entrance of our house that the county is about to shut down. We’re soooo close we can taste it. We approach the house and see a Car just sitting there guarding the Entrance. We all agree fuck it and Run! We sprinting and to our surprise David Lui is waiting for Vegas to get to the House. I make it there Safe but deem I can’t leave my man Hanging so I jump on Lui and Help Vegas Run to safety.
Success! Four Hours later we’re back safe and sound and its now time for Vegas to begin his 21st BDAY. Nothing like Bar hopping in a blizzard after you hiked the width of Terre Haute, IN. But I’ll leave that BDAY tale for another night.