{"id":17272,"date":"2016-08-06T10:59:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T15:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=17272"},"modified":"2016-08-06T11:01:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T16:01:15","slug":"veritas-racoons-and-wimping-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=17272","title":{"rendered":"Veritas, Racoons and Wimping out"},"content":{"rendered":"

I broke out our camping gear after a 20 year hiatus and prepared to give it one more go with Claudia, my daughter and grandsons. We headed to the headwaters of the Mississippi River for a two night excursion.<\/p>\n

Here are the grandsons at the headwaters. <\/p>\n

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After wading across the Big Muddy we cashed in our chips having suffered a rainy night with marauding gangs of raccoons riffling through our campsite.<\/p>\n

The itas <\/em>in Itasca State Park and the lake its named after comes from the Greek word veritas or truth as in the true source of the Mississippi<\/em>. That’s the name Henry Schoolcraft gave it when Indian guides or possibly Duluth resident, George Bonga<\/a>, took him to the lake so he could “discover” it. <\/p>\n

We found comfortable beds in a Super 8 in Park Rapids and a wonderful surprise of an Italian restaurant<\/a> in the same city. Our grandsons ate mussles. Such refined barbarians.<\/p>\n

My sister called me a wimp when she found out I’d broken camp early. I sent her this picture to restore my manly self respect.<\/p>\n

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I know. I know. That happened the day after <\/a>we got home but my sister doesn’t read this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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