Page 60 - "Mississippi in the 1st Person" - Michael James Stone (Demo/Free)

Wanagan Campsite is the first of only a few places all along the Mississippi River that really
sets you up nicely for a inspiring three or four perfect sites.

It has an ancient picnic table inside a huge log cabin style covering and a fire pit.

It’s rustic atmosphere with those logs makes you think mountain more than flatland and cer-
tainly it is a awesome feeling to camp, cook, eat and rest there.

This normally for most this is where some get ticks and others get bit, but May so far I had not

seen hide nor hair of ticks or mosquitoes.

Wanagan is also where most kayakers stop for breakfast or lunch and continue on. Because I
was new to this area and nervous already., I had planned lots of extra days these first two

weeks.

As it turned out I needed them.

Stage One Loading

Eloquence was listing badly and Kayackanoe was stern heavy. Even Scooby Do who rode on

the bow of the lead was nervous. I knew I had to stop somewhere soon and reload this but my
motto in town was always to “get going” because the hardest part of any Long Distance driv-

ing or journey I had done alone or with others was just getting out of town.

It seemed incredibly clear I had rushed and while I had a nice enough day again to “get going”
loading seemed to take hours and hours and while I might have exaggerated that, I knew Lori

was waiting on me.

In the end it was “dump and run” loading and it showed…..