{"id":771,"date":"2008-08-14T07:51:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T16:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/?p=771"},"modified":"2008-08-14T07:51:59","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T16:51:59","slug":"camping-and-other-happenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/2008\/08\/14\/camping-and-other-happenings\/","title":{"rendered":"Camping at Knife Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill, Dad, and I headed off to Knife Lake early Monday morning. It&#8217;s about an hour and a half drive to get to the entry point, and then it took another 7 1\/2 hours of paddling and portaging to get to our campsite. Camping in the BWCA is unlike any other activity. Certainly, you must go on your own will, or it\u00a0 won&#8217;t be enjoyable. It&#8217;s hard work to get there, full of mosquitoes, and carries the possibility of sunburn or cold rain. There are no motors, no extra conveniences. But it&#8217;s wonderful. Part of what I love about camping in the Boundary Waters is being reminded to appreciate what I have and to continue working at simplifying my life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This trip was as nice as the others have been. I swam quite a few times, read my book, and just relaxed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/08\/canoeing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-772\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/08\/canoeing-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/08\/canada.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-773\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/08\/canada-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/08\/our-tents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-774\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/08\/our-tents-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/08\/from-our-campsite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-775\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/08\/from-our-campsite-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/08\/dad-in-rapids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-776\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/08\/dad-in-rapids-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/08\/video.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-777\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/08\/video-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/08\/erin-at-site.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-778\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/08\/erin-at-site-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I took great pride in having worn these same pants every day of the trip. How many places can you get away with that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill, Dad, and I headed off to Knife Lake early Monday morning. It&#8217;s about an hour and a half drive to get to the entry point, and then it took another 7 1\/2 hours of paddling and portaging to get &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/2008\/08\/14\/camping-and-other-happenings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}