I met Adam Davis at 10 o'clock yesterday morning and we paddled for 90 minutes. Adam's G.P.S. device recorded where we went:
There are stories behind the zigs and zags. There was a barge rig coming upriver as we left the harbor, and the scribble at Mile 2 is the surfing we did on its wake. Later, as we made our way up the Arkansas bank (the left side of this map, despite the misleading placement of the words "Tennessee" and "Arkansas"), we had to paddle around the ends of wing dams that were exposed at the Memphis gauge reading of 4.2 feet. That's why those sharp corners are there just before Mile 5 and Mile 6.
I was back in the boat this morning doing all the usual things in a 60-minute session. I warmed up. Did some 8-stroke sprints. Worked on my forward stroke. Surfed on some big, fast-moving waves churned up by a barge rig hurrying downstream.
After a very nice week, it's sort of getting hot again today. But soon the temperatures will be milder once again with chances of rain as tropical storms Marco and Laura move in to the southern United States.
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