Bare neccssities

No I’m not one to turn down the fire but most of the times when I get ready to build a fire I have fire starter or charcoal starter simply because I’m not one of those outdoors type people that likes to take that much time to sit around trying to get a fire going I want to get that fire collected or lease the wood put inside the pit and the fire started so if you’re expecting me to talk about some type of environmentally safe or some type of protected way of using renewable resources that’s not me and I want to fire I build a fire and get warm.

Having said all that I knew that I wouldn’t have a fire where I’m located because I was too close to probably being on till company property and not sure how they would react to me building fires so the first few days I knew were going to be cold camps. Paragraph one of the things that I enjoy about being out camping not saying that I’m doing anything typical of what other people might do is the fact that I didn’t have water in order to start I had some water but I do use that up at the Greyhound bus station and not knowing when the gear was going to come in I got cut short so one of the ways that I collect water from the Mississippi River is a use my paddle ahead and take it off slide my camp coffee pot over the paddle head Paul then put the pedal head back on and use the pool itself to reach from the shoreline out into the water or the surf whichever maybe depending upon the activity level of the river.

Now I don’t know that this sounds like much to most people who are kind of out duration they would’ve use their rubber seal like I have my rubbers that word drying overnight but the fact that you think of it in that you do it simply means that you’re prepared for any eventuality that you might come up for instants being at the river might be too cold to stick your feet in or that it might be freezing cold and you don’t want to get wet so it’s not something that is a mandatory but it’s just a mindset that reminds you that you can improvise and that you do it provides when you don’t want to get wet or that you just want to collect some water in order to use it for your water filter or boiling water or however you want to do it without necessarily going out into the water.

I call this Baron assess Ites because last night there was no way anyone would stick their feet inside that water it was so freezing cold outside of the water and just as cold inside the water that it should’ve been nice my opinion.

Now today with the humidity coming up and I can feel the warmth it’s actually colder inside the tent then it is outside the tent and the breeze is coming up feels pretty much warm but you can’t trust your feelings when it comes to weather because a lot of times you’re giving up your core body heat without realizing that it may seem warm but it could in fact be deriving you of necessaryheat.

 Not a big deal when you have all your camping gear or you spent some money on camping gear you got it all collected in one spot but as this I said I am not typical but someone who improvises at times and often times is missing some piece of gear that I’m looking for and so being able to adapt is one of the most necessary things I would say to be on the river in earlier today imagine that some of the aches and pains that I thought might be a cracked rib or a bruised rib or something might be gone well as it turns out I have a feeling it is still there.

Not a big deal when you consider that I survive so many things of worsening nature but it’s just an inconvenience for you have to treat it with respect and any type of injury that you have when you have a long distance to go you have to respect it and try to heal it as much as possible without spending too much time on it and then MoveOn same thing with my back I could tell that my back is pretty much stressed in one spot painful but not necessarily going out if I just take the time to roll around on the tennis ball that I brought hopefully that does it for the old timer in the camp on the Mississippi river.