Three more days on the river puts us in the river town of Cape Girardeau, MO where we were looking forward to meeting Jeff & Polly Graves ( a couple of UND alumni). Due to an unfortunate family circumstance they had to leave town. Through conversation, we have come to learn that they put us up for the night in a hotel and left us in the good care of Tracey and Mark who will later this evening show us around town. Thank you Jeff & Polly we are sorry we missed you and hope all went well up North.
We do not have much to report as we have just arrived and have not scouted out the town yet. We'll have to give you a report of the town in the future.
What we can report is the river current has definitely picked up. We hit our first 51 mile day on Monday and yesterday we hit 48 miles, just shy of 100 miles in two days.
We got stuck in a sever thunderstorm yesterday which had 30-40 m.p.h. winds, large rain, and a lot of thunder/lightning. We saw it developing behind us and thought we were in for an afternoon rain storm. However, once we realized that the wind that had been blowing in our face had stopped (the calm before the storm) and the thunder started rumbling we knew we should get off the river. We pulled off onto a sand-bar and seconds after we got off the river the storm started with the high winds. We waited the storm out, being pelted with rain. At the end both of us were soaked,which actually felt pretty good as the temperatures before the storm were around 100 F, and the canoe had about 5 inches of water in it.
Take a look at the pictures as we have posted the latest bunch.
Life's the experience, try something new,
Eel & Platypus
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Hi Guys, In response to the Crepes in St.Louis, we did miss you but don't worry we ate enough Crepes for the both of you, they were yummy!! Sounds like you have had a taste of the Midwest! Hot, Humid, Storms, yep that's what our summers consist of (smile). It was very refreshing meeting you both!, These days you don't run into people with such passion for life, and adventure!! To tell you the truth, if I would of been you and ran into us , I would of run the other direction once actually meeting us (smile) Hopefulley you both enjoyed Harry's Bar, Jeff you probably have a story or more (smile). Well , I wish the both of you the Best in the remainder of your travels, and Please keep in mind that if either of you are in the Detroit/Metro area ever look us up, we would be very Happy to show you the beauty of Detroit, and if you are available and have no plans which is probably not the case, you both have an Invite for the New Years Eve gig that will be going on here in Detroit, oh that's right, Edmund is going to fly us around the city before the reception. Keep in touch, Peace Out!! Deedee
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