One week from today

L 272 I'm having a hard time believing the tow boat business is in a recession. There was a continuous chain of towboats pushing 21 to 35 barges all day. I saw grain, rocks, petroleum, natural gas, junk cars, coal, and countless empty barges moving in both directions on the river. I think I now know what a smart car driver feels like driving on an interstate filled with 18 wheelers. I monitor the ship to ship channel on my radio just to try to figure out what's happening. Sometimes there will be a group of tows stopped and I have no idea why. I have never been mentioned in any radio traffic that I have heard. I suppose that's a good thing but a shoutout to the tows coming up that there is an old retired airline pilot paddling an overloaded kayak down the river and to cut him some slack would be nice. I have been paddling more miles than I need to to make my Nov 4th meetup with thehouseofwilliams. I can either slow down or spend 2 nights in a campsite. I don't know what to do. I have been getting up at 5 for so long I can't really sleep in. Of course going to bed at 8 might have something to do with my early getup.