Bonus blog at the end of Day 6

 

Pop Quiz: Can you tell what essential piece of propulsive equipment is missing from this picture?

I'd promised to be learning about and reflecting upon and writing about certain environmental issues facing our waters, but today's string of madcap and inane events and decisions leave me with ten end-of-day epiphanies:  

‘Bob, at these speeds and with this level of climate-controlled comfort, I could row across the country!’     - (Al, in Bob’s Subaru, with the boat on the roof, heading west)

 ‘Lewis and Clark were chumps to do it the way they did it.’   -  (same)

 ‘Bob, where’d you put the oars?’ ‘Al, where’d you put the oars?’   - stated in unison

 Tonight’s dinner, a  quart of chocolate milk, is enough, because my food box is with the oars.    - Al, who packed too hastily

 ‘Everywhere I itch I can’t reach.’   -  Anonymous

 If you’ve been wet for three days, you ought not to look.  - truism

 In a tent at night, a rogue raisin can be frightening.   - Lived experience

 ‘The river will do like she does.’   - Lockkeeper

 ‘Sure, you just took 3 or 4 days off your row, but if you row slower, you’ll get it back.’          - Sage fellow traveler

 At the base of Lock 8, some pointed, some waved, some took pictures, and more than a few wondered, ‘Why? Why?’