Cuivre River State Park

On Wednesday, I was heading up to Kirksville to spend some time with Devin and decided to backpack 8 miles in Cuivre River State park on the way.  The weather was slightly cold, but overall very nice.  The trails there are heavily used by horses which I knew, but I forgot that it had rained pretty hard on Monday and didn't put 2 and 2 together.  As a result the whole trail was mud, with all these water holes everywhere, from where the horses had walked, it was like walking through a mine field.

Other than that the hike was pretty uneventful, I used my water filter to get some water from a creek along the way.  I also saw a car in the middle of the woods, someone obviously crashed it there, but I'm not sure how they got it there, it was at the bottom of a large drop off with a river behind it, so it had to have come from the ledge above, but there wasn't a road there and all the trees around look undisturbed and too close together for a car to pass through, maybe it happened a long time ago and the trees have since grown back, I don't know.  

I now have less than a week until I start, it is really starting to sink in that this is happening now and I am very very excited.  I feel like there is still so much to do before I leave.  This weekend I'm going to have to organize all of my supplies and put together some mail drop packages.

I'm trying to enjoy the things that I have taken for granted in normal life that will be a luxury next week, like my computer, TV and showers, oh how I will miss taking one every day.