{"id":22069,"date":"2015-06-15T00:02:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T04:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=22069"},"modified":"2015-06-15T00:02:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T04:02:35","slug":"sunday-night-comar-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2015\/06\/15\/sunday-night-comar-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night &#8211; Comar island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gabe and I did something fun last night. we camped on one of the sand islands in the Winooski river. We rove about 7 miles upstream from the house, loaded our canoe and took off. The water was really fast, which made for a dn ride<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_76451.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_76491.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We picked one of the islands that had some flat spots for camping, trees for games hammocks and were high enough to keep us out of the river. The one we chose was one we call Comar island (for cohn mariano).. it&#8217;s one that Sam and I once camped on.. (Coma was also the name of my dads marketing company !)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we pulled the conoe out and did a quick survey of the island.. we found this geo-cache !<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_76501.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>gabe hacked a way to some trees with his machette<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_76551.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and set up his camping hammock.. very nice !<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_76581.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we then set up the tent for me and began making a fire for dinner.. here&#8217;s the Amtrak montrealler coming by to say hi<\/p>\n<p>.. we were just across the river from the tracks<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_76621.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was the maiden journey for my little electric wood stove.. it has a small fan powered by a rechargeable battery.. it burns twigs.. and gets incredibly hot because of the forced air. the coolest thing is that it has a little peltier device in their that recharges the batter using the heat from the fire. It even lets you recharge your phone from the excess energy.. it took my phone from zero to 50 % .. not bad..<\/p>\n<p>it also buils a pot of water in about 3 minutes !<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_76671.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>gabe made our campfire\/cookign fire the old fashioned way<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_76691.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_76711.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>after dinner we split a weird soft drink game and diane had found in an oriental grocery.. it had hairy basil seeds.. yum ?!?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_76741.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/>\\<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_76771.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we tossed\u00a0\u00a0a samstone in the fire just to see what would happen\u00a0\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_76811.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/>\\\\\\\\<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_76861.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>next morning .. after a good nights sleep .. we saw that this is what happened.. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_76981.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_76971.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>at the crack of 10 AM we broke camp..\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_76991.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/>\\<\/p>\n<p>and headed home for showers..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we had so much fun ourt there. It was great having that quiet time with babe&#8230; and with the river..<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabe and I did something fun last night. we camped on one of the sand islands in the Winooski river. We rove about 7 miles upstream from the house, loaded our canoe and took off. The water was really fast, which made for a dn ride &nbsp; &nbsp; We picked one of the islands that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2015\/06\/15\/sunday-night-comar-island\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday night &#8211; Comar island<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22188,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22069\/revisions\/22188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}