Gregg Botterman and Roland Burr sat at a Meadows Center picnic table in the shade Friday, with bright red stickers of the alphabet scattered in front of them.
“I need an ‘R,’” said Rob Hill, the third member of their crew, sitting on the ground next to the team’s canoe. Burr gently handed him the letter and Hill carefully stuck it to the side of the boat. The trio were preparing their vessel for the Texas Water Safari.
They seemed half-confident; assured in their physical ability but uncertain in what exactly they were getting into. They’d been through tough adventures before, including a few far from home. But the Safari is supposed to be “the world’s toughest canoe race.”
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