Wed. 5 I portage Lock and Dam 21. The scenery from 21 to Hannibal Missouri was very beautiful. Long paddle day, I am being cooked by the sun. I decide to skip the Mark Twain Hannibal Land. The barges are stacked up here at the Lock and Dam in Hannibal. I portage over the spillway, and take a back channel that ends up running dry. I turn back tired, I throw up my tent on an island near the dam. The sandy island I sleep on heated by the sun during the day radiates heat underneath me. It feels like a sweat lodge surrounded by mosquitos.
Diary Entry from the book {Prometheus Lives} by Artist Troy Richard Thomas
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