Monday 3Jun19 Mississippi Headwaters
Woke at 6:30 to a cloudy cold morning. I woke up with the last few minutes of a migraine aurora. Typical headache followed and extreme sleepiness. Had the usual breakfast. After cleaning up from breakfast I headed to Amerigas to get propane. I arrived to AmeriGas only to find out that they did not have the equipment to service an RV This is getting old. They did tell me that there was a Holiday gas station just up the road that has the equipment to service my RV. At the Holiday gas station a young lady serviced my propane tank and tells I should drive to Point Park. There is just a sliver of land that separates the bay from Lake Superior. At the end of this strip of land is Point Park. It wad windy and cold but I went to the lake side beach.
After spending a couple hours on the beach I drove back to downtown Duluth and checked it out.
After messing around there for an hour I drove to a station for gas. Then I got on the road headed towards Fargo ND. I stoppef at a park by the Mississippi River. At one point Wiggin swims out to an island of logs and brush and can't get back to dry land on his own so I had to wade in after him. This reminded me of the time I had to wade into a lake at Escalante State Park in Utah to save Wolphen from drowning. He was fetching a stick that I had thrown in and somehow got tangled in something and couldn't swim. I had to get waste deep that time. Wolphen loved to fetch sticks out of the water. Great memories!
After being rescued Wiggin wanted to go on a hike on the trail there even though it was flooded.
It was a nice trail but the mosquitoes were terrible.
After the hike I drove to Itasca State Park and drove up north to the Headwaters of the Mississippi.
The Mississippi River starts as this little Creek flowing out of Itasca Lake. I walked across on the stones. So I have walked across the Mississippi River. It was dark when I get back to the RT. I fixed some dinner and after cleaning up the dishes I got back on the road towards Fargo. I stopped for the night at a rest stop in Park Rapids Minnesota.