The next day
we knew we needed to stop soon for water.
We were doing alright on food and such, but were down to our last jug of
drinking water. We stopped in
Caruthersville, MO at a ramp with a small park. There were plenty of outlets, but no water to be found. We decided against walking to the
nearest grocery since it was so far away and we wanted to knock down some
miles. We also didn’t want to
spend time charging the phones if that’s all we were getting in the town. So, with nothing to show for the stop,
we headed back out. We figured we
would find another place for water shortly and in the meantime could boil water
for drinking. This ended up being
a mistake; we would soon find out that towns south of St. Louis are few and far
between.
Even
with our wasted stop, we made it to mile 829 ½ as the sun went down, making it
a 34 mile day. We paddled in
between a couple of dikes, ‘canoe parking spots’ as we had come to think of
them, to make camp. There had
obviously been people camping their recently and we used their firepit for our
own. Walking away from the river,
we came on ATV trails that ran up to a well used two-track. We assumed we were on state land, and
even if we weren’t, it was awfully cold and getting late for someone to show
up. We set the tent up in the
midst of heavy grass and burr bushes with some difficulty and went to bed
early.
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