Super What?

With the schedule being off probably for five days which I haven’t had a chance to look but I plan on re-evaluating today when I make my plans it was typical to what I always assume is going to happen what you approach the Mississippi river you make your plans you chart your course you lay out your ideas and then it soon as you get on the river you throw him overboard because it ain’t going to happen the way you think it will.

Dealing with you manatee trying to get cargo shipped dealing with buses in people and places and things and even some of the criminal element that content to slow you down but once you get on the river you’re back in your own element or least I am and then I’m able to start getting back into shape and getting back into the what I call water since you know because sometimes people don’t make no sense but want to get out in the wilderness or at least in some parts of what you could call common sense than most things work according to the weather cording to the sunshine cording to the flow of the river cording to the wind cording to the cold cording to eating and drinking in putting clothes on and taking them off you could say you getting back to the natural or the nature of things but you could also say that you just simplifying and that’s kind of what I love about being back on The river

It’s a simpler way of life I’m not concerned about who’s going to win the Super Bowl or who the president is a matter fact my priorities boil down to the simple things like taking the tarp or both tarps off of my kayak letting them dry out for the morning sun seeing if there’s a pathway to walk to Walmart or if I have to go down river a little farther to a direct road to Walmart seeing if I can find my arthritis ball that I can roll my back on so they can get rid of some of the pain that I’m feeling those are kind of what I called the simpler things in life because then you’re boiling down to just you are the only person responsible for you you deal with it you got it it’s yours baby and that’s what I mean by turtling slowing down to be able to take a look at things and see them in a different light for instance when I was drinking from my water filter today because I didn’t Have any water already filtered or any water purchased from the store because I’m still trying to get to Walmart I was looking at that blue bag you know the one with the filter on the end of it and I was thinking I was sitting around a campfire with Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone drinking from one of those you know Blatter skins you know and you have to squeeze it in order to get some water out well that’s what you do some of the filter bags you know you could just squeeze it in your mouth and drink some nice cold clean water and that coming from the Mississippi River isn’t that something you could say that we’ve come a long ways from when he used to be a dirty river oh sure it’s got a long ways to go but one of the things I appreciated being able to see it both ways not just as an outdoors adventure but as an adventure with the tow or the towboat captains the pilots.

I see them is a kind of a denture all their own it’s kind of fun to play tag with them and wave Adam and see what they’re doing moving this piece there and move in that car go there and twisting this and twisting that way I don’t think the Mississippi is the way that I’m I wanted to be while I think of it this way I want to be modern it’s fun I see both ends of the river the past the present and the future and that’s the part that I enjoy because I can still have my adventures regardless of whether it’s 100 years ago or 100 years in the future I’ll probably still be kayaking this little turkey that I got right now Moonshadow and had my own way down the river or up the river this time because that’s the way it is lotta things may change but it still boils down to the same you got to eat you got a drake you got to sleep and you got to get out of the weather.