Isle Royale National Forest
or
Karens Big Adventure

Tuesday
2 July 2002
The flight to the staging area

 Our rally point was set for the Kistner house at 9:30am but several of us were running late. I had not had time in the preceding days to pick up those last couple items and so while Donovan and Bubba admired my truck at my parent’s house, and the possible uses for it in my absence, I ran up to Walgreens to secure film, bootlaces, and a new camouflage silk shirt. These are but a few of the non-essential essentials that made their way onto this trip, as the following pages will show. DOV and I arrive shortly after 9:45am at the Kistner base of operations and realize that our concern over tardiness was somewhat unnecessary due to the fact that Karen and the Silver Bullet had not yet arrived and as she was our transport vehicle for this trip, we had nothing to really do but stand around and make the neighbors nervous. . . .