Cajun cousin

He really is Cajun, or at least part and part French.

That’s what’s great about a great American adventure is that you never know when someone just might pull up on a four wheeler or someone might come paddling up on a canoe or someone just might be passing by on an ocean going trawler that my friends is a great American adventure.

Now I’d like to say that everything is predictable every day when I go kayaking and that the sun is always bride there’s food in my cargo and every morning is breakfast and eggs and every night is steak and whatever it is that outfitters do but for me no that’s not the way it works I’m back to racing trying to make ends meet with water and hauling things around and using Lyft and you know it’s fascinating because you know lift is becoming kind of like the river angel of the Mississippi rivers it’s really convenient to be able to get someone to take you right to where you want to go and be able to see them coming to get you now I’m not saying that I can always afford it but the few times that I’ve had to run emergency lift is really come up big for me Uber unfortunately I got dumped twice up in northern Minnesota.

Now to be fair most of these Lyft drivers are driving for Uber also but in northern Minnesota when they passed me by three times that hurt my feelings until finally I got a ride that took me free unbelievable magic carpet ride that I went on the yellow submarine that I called this yellow taxi that took me on a ride around never forget but then again you have to read that in how not to kayak to Mississippi River book series and in the book I think it’s volume three but I’m not sure of Mississippi in the first person but you could read it there.

In the meantime I’m just happy to have a day that didn’t completely rained on me all day long and I was able to get quite a bit of gear cleared up cleaned up dusted off mudded free and moved inside the tent that I have now tonight I’m going to try to just sleep pretty much without having to get all bundled up and warmed up and see how well the warmth of the night is now that it’s starting to warm up at night eventually I look forward to taking even the rain tarp off and just looking at the stars at night but so far they’re predicting rain tonight and for the next few days is probably gonna rain just like they say so I’m adapting and that’s kind of what makes it all so fun it’s not something that you have to be depressed about or obsessed to get on with what you were doing but rather treat it as an adventure treated as something that’s great about America something that doesn’t come as a cyber experience but rather you have to get out get Dirty get muddy get wet and get on with it and figure out how to make ends meet that’s why I am out here with the great American adventure series tonight just meet people like my Cajun cousins film told me the whole history the area that he didn’t come in here and four wheeling we’re actually dirtbike it since he was eight years old and now he’s taking his sons to the exact same place he said it feels like home now admittedly he used to go a lot farther down the Mississippi river but then they put the Dow chemical plant there and they kind of close off some of the areas that he used to go but that’s OK because every area has its own places to go and have fun and places for industrial and places for oceangoing trawlers and places for barges and also places for a kayaker like me to pitch a tent and have a camp.