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Retreat Packing List

CAMPING
• Hip boots
• Air mattress, air pump
• Sleeping bag
• pillow
• pots, dishes, silverware
• Rain gear
• Coffee pot
• Tripod
• Notebook, pen
• Camera and extra batteries
• walking poles
• backpack
• matches
BOOKS
• The Zen of Recovery
• Walden
FOOD
• Water
• Juice
• Peanuts
• coffee
• Ginseng
• Peeps
• pre-cooked crock pot soup & stews

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RETREAT!!

Definitions, retreat:  

1. an act or process of withdrawing especially from what is difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable...
2. a place of privacy or safety
3.  a period of withdrawal for meditation, study

After 40 years of smoking and chewing the stuff off and on, but mostly on, I've decided to take a different approach to quitting.  It's probably not a way a lot of folks would want to do it, but I figure there might be some that would.  So for those of you that MIGHT, you can follow this blog segment if you're interested, and maybe learn from what I end up doing right or wrong in the process.  I'll be the guinea pig.

MN DNR Camper Cabin

Yesterday I made a reservation with the Minnesota DNR for 3 nights at a camper cabin.  It cost me $50 a night plus an $8.50 registration fee.  There was no problem with availability this time of year, since it's at least a month before the tourist season.  This one is at the Big Bog on the northeast side of Upper Red Lake.

MN Parks

I've never been there, but it's not too hard to imagine what it might be like just from the name of the park.  Pretty sure it's a big bog... ;-)





Stay tuned..!!  (to be continued)