Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 6:30 am
Everybody's up early again. The sky is overcast but the temperature isn't bad - maybe in the 50's. One instrument that Adventure does not have is an outside thermometer! The rain we thought we might get last night did not materialize. We had a little trouble pulling the anchor this morning as it ended up twisted around making it difficult to get into the cradle. After allowing the anchor to drop again, it came up just fine and we were on our way before 7 am. It rained much of the day - our first lockthrough was especially wet! The rain let up mid-afternoon and by the time we quit, the weather wasn't too bad. The last lock we passed through was at Keokuk where the water level was lowered over 35 feet. It was Maureen's first experience with floating bollards that you had to tie a line to rather than holding onto a line from the top of the lock. Just a couple miles south of the lock, we found an anchoring spot off the main channel and watched the fog roll in. Looking around us we could see house boats as well as other boats up on the shore, mangled docks, trees and utility poles with water lines about 20 feet up the trunk or pole, and a very muddy shore. The worker at the last lock had told us the river had risen 28 feet during the flood in late June.
We had been smelling the roast Diane put in the crockpot this morning and we were all more than ready to enjoy it for dinner. We watched the second presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain while we drank wine and ate popcorn with candy corn! Does life get any better than that??
Everybody's up early again. The sky is overcast but the temperature isn't bad - maybe in the 50's. One instrument that Adventure does not have is an outside thermometer! The rain we thought we might get last night did not materialize. We had a little trouble pulling the anchor this morning as it ended up twisted around making it difficult to get into the cradle. After allowing the anchor to drop again, it came up just fine and we were on our way before 7 am. It rained much of the day - our first lockthrough was especially wet! The rain let up mid-afternoon and by the time we quit, the weather wasn't too bad. The last lock we passed through was at Keokuk where the water level was lowered over 35 feet. It was Maureen's first experience with floating bollards that you had to tie a line to rather than holding onto a line from the top of the lock. Just a couple miles south of the lock, we found an anchoring spot off the main channel and watched the fog roll in. Looking around us we could see house boats as well as other boats up on the shore, mangled docks, trees and utility poles with water lines about 20 feet up the trunk or pole, and a very muddy shore. The worker at the last lock had told us the river had risen 28 feet during the flood in late June.
We had been smelling the roast Diane put in the crockpot this morning and we were all more than ready to enjoy it for dinner. We watched the second presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain while we drank wine and ate popcorn with candy corn! Does life get any better than that??
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