DAY 27

Thursday September 5th

8:45 floating time!!
Captain of the tug “Discovery” slowed his engine for me to pass 👍🏻 marker 486.0 at 12:10, took about 40min to walk to Dollar General and back, start paddling, and I hear “ hey come over here” we chatted and the craziest thing it took me about 2 hours to paddle past their dock 🤔🍻🍻🤷🏼‍♂️🤣 Chris Volz, Dave Mauney, awesome hanging out. Stopped into a cute little town of Aurora went to chat with the gentleman painting his house, we all had a great conversation, his wife’s brother retired Navy also, met frank painting poles in town just for fun, he is a retired man good hard working man, then I saw him at the Moose Lodge 🍺. Thank you for the chat and the cross. Had a little more fun than I should’ve. Thank you all, I think they should give me a medal for paddling when it’s super dark, finding my bank, trees and setting it all up, in my condition 🍻💨🤣🤣🤣😆🤷🏼‍♂️. Oh yea, some little punk stole Wilson 😢😢 “Ill miss ya little buddy”,and another or the same took my yacht for a joy ride. No worries, he will remember that little chat we had forever. Dustin Slusher, Sheila Clark, all the others thank you and great chatting.