{"id":74,"date":"2005-08-31T20:10:01","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T20:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2024-01-11T22:54:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T22:54:20","slug":"august_31_2005_bemidji_koa_bemidji_minne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"August 31, 2005 Bemidji KOA Bemidji Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 31,2005<br \/>\nBemidji KOA<br \/>\nBemidji, MI<\/p>\n<p>Spent the last few days exploring the Headwaters of the Mississippi River and the adjacent neighborhood.  Truly good to drop the airstream at the camp and head out on day trips.  Opens up so many little dirt roads.  It\u2019s good to be at a campground where you feel safe to leave your rig.<br \/>\nThe Mississippi ain\u2019t such a big river up in these parts.  I walked across it, up at the Headwaters at Lake Itasca,  Henry swam across it numerous times and Heather took pictures of us doing it.<br \/>\nThe back roads lead you to such varied landscape,  from the largest Peat Bog in the united states  and what look like swamps to me, to wooded pastures with great rock piles and weathered birch trees.  Small streams are everywhere and many wonder through these pastures.  Then into dense  forests, that I just can\u2019t figure out how to photograph, and back around another  lake.  Lakes are everywhere!   From small ponds to a huge sea in Upper Red Lake.<br \/>\nGreat part of the country but I still want to know where the lobsters are?  After all there are sea gulls in most of the fields and it sure feels like Maine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/lake-itasca.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" \/><br \/>\ndmk shoots the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/lake-itaska1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" \/><br \/>\nLake Itasca<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bridge-over-the-miss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" \/><br \/>\nBridge over the Mississippi just below Lake Itasca<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/dmk-heather-henry-headwater.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" \/><br \/>\ndmk henry and heather at the start of the Mississippi River<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mississippi-river-dypt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"242\" \/><br \/>\nupper Mississippi River<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mississippi-dipt-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"448\" \/><br \/>\nmore of the upper Mississippi<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/henry-in-the-miss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" \/><br \/>\nHenry in the upper Mississippi<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/henry-headwaters-miss2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" \/><br \/>\nHenry in the upper Mississippi 2<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/henry-headwaters-miss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"504\" \/><br \/>\nHenry swam ALOT in the upper Mississippi River!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 31,2005 Bemidji KOA Bemidji, MI Spent the last few days exploring the Headwaters of the Mississippi River and the adjacent neighborhood. Truly good to drop the airstream at the camp and head out on day trips. Opens up so many little dirt roads. It\u2019s good to be at a campground where you feel safe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}