Day 71: Ste. Genevieve
I woke up today to Ray calling my name. He was hollering, time to get breakfast. He came back to pick me up this morning to go get breakfast. I was tired, but wanted something besides oatmeal. I grabbed my camera bag and left everything else. It was safe. We drove to this small cafe
Day 70: Barge camping, tug seeing, people helping, and the Arch.
This was a day that I was looking forward to on the whole trip. I woke up at 6:00am to the sounds of construction workers at the site in which I had comfortably slept last night. My boat was still there, but I needed to move and get out of where I was staying. It
Day 69: Passing barges
Alton Marina to north St. Louis I left the Alton marina after I packed everything up. I got rid of the heavy rope I was carrying to lighten the load on my boat. I had clean laundry and was ready to go to St. Louis. I talked to my friend, Damon, about making the trip
Day 68: Rain Day
Alton Marina Today was a lazy day off with the rain storms coming all day. I slept in as it was raining pretty heavy all night and morning. I did not take into account the slope of the cement patio I was on last night. The rain was coming down hard and it was flowing
Day 67: The storms
I woke up to cloudy skies and a chance of rain. That chance happened as I was opening my eyes. I did not have the rain fly on and I did not want to set it up. I did not want to carry a wet top. So, I moved…. really quickly. I had everything broke
Day 66: Generosity of people
Elberry to Grafton, IL I woke up early as Kyle and Caleb were leaving early. A hammock is considerably easier to break down than a tent. I am glad I brought one. I left their dock after packing and some breakfast. It was a very slow moving day for me. It may have been the
Day 65: Things that go boom!!
Waking up on a beach is a good life. I woke up ready for a big day. I got onto the water as I was looking to travel through a lot of the back sloughs today. Sloughs are back channels along the main current. They are like a state road to the interstate. It was
Day 64: the trek
I got up off the couch this morning at Scott’s place. I grabbed my gear and closed up his place as I made my way to my boat. It was on a dock from the night before, so I was going to have to find someone to help me load it into the water. As
Day 63: corvettes, solo, party shots
Hannibal, MO to the Sand Bar I woke up from sleeping under a boat club in my hammock. There was a thick fog covering the area. It was a surreal fog as I could see the river below me. I packed my gear up quietly as I was going to get back to doing my
Day 62: Rookie spill and doing what I do well.
Quincy, IL to Hannibal, MO I woke to find out that the launch we had our boats was one of the only launches in this area and boaters were expecting to use it. We got up to move our boats. After doing that, I went back to my pad. I was tired. I finally got