Posts Tagged "canoeing"

Floating Big Sugar

Posted on Jul 27, 2009 in Day / Weekend Trips, Rural America | 4 comments

Floating Big Sugar

This weekend we organized an expedition of sorts to get our kayaks out on a new river (new to me at least). We picked Big Sugar Creek near Pineville because it’s A)close B)scenic and C)void of most of the party scene found further downstream on the Elk River. The first day we floated...

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Party on the River

Posted on Dec 9, 2008 in My Thoughts On..., Rural America | 1 comment

I read in the Joplin Globe that someone in the Missouri legislature has submitted a bill that would ban various types of party/drinking paraphernalia including kegs, beer bongs, and mardi-gras beads on rivers in Missouri. I can’t imagine that legislation will get much traction in a state...

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