It's good to know there is still some wilderness left in the United States. Places where you can get away from all the craziness of modern life: elections, pandemics, unemployment, inequality, overall angst.
One of my favorite such places is the Black Creek National Scenic River in the Black Creek Wilderness Area in southern Mississippi.
Every Veterans Day weekend in November for the past 31 years a group of my friend Jim Ferguson's buddies and some of their buddies canoe from Moody's Landing to Janice Landing on the quiet stream, camping one night along the way, reminiscing, swapping lies, and drinking way too much whiskey.
So it was particularly satisfying in this terrible, tumultuous year of 2020. While the nation was in turmoil, awaiting the outcome of a hotly contested presidential election, we unapologetically escaped for a few, welcome hours of pure tranquility. Ah...
One of my favorite such places is the Black Creek National Scenic River in the Black Creek Wilderness Area in southern Mississippi.
Every Veterans Day weekend in November for the past 31 years a group of my friend Jim Ferguson's buddies and some of their buddies canoe from Moody's Landing to Janice Landing on the quiet stream, camping one night along the way, reminiscing, swapping lies, and drinking way too much whiskey.
So it was particularly satisfying in this terrible, tumultuous year of 2020. While the nation was in turmoil, awaiting the outcome of a hotly contested presidential election, we unapologetically escaped for a few, welcome hours of pure tranquility. Ah...
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