Page 101 - "Mississippi in the 1st Person" - Michael James Stone (Demo/Free)

Taking my time and not really thinking about it I was
pretty proud of my accomplishment.

It’s kind of funny that way when your on the Mississip-

pi River and everyone’s telling NOT TO BRING
SOMETHING and then you go and use one of those

items they told you not to bring…….,

Chuckling to myself I got to thinking, I wonder how
many people going down the miss added a hatchet to

their list.

Obstacles, set backs, failures, I had more than my fair share of them according to what other

people said and looking over my life I knew they didn’t always appear to accomplish anything
or I overcame all of them. No, in fact some kicked my butt……, but I kept on and on.

On and on was going to be a mantra soon enough I had a long ways to go and already I had en-

countered things I never expected on this River.

What seemed to be a pattern now, or just my dumb luck, but as soon as I thought I was going
to get to paddle there up around the bend, I had encountered a tree and conquered. It had a few

trees there but just one I needed to clear and so I did.

Unfortunately I was back to dragging my boats once again….