Day 20

Day 20
By this time we were both tired and smelling not so grand but today would be our last portage and we would be in Minneapolis at long last. We had hotel reservation downtown the next day and it was all the motivation we needed to get an early start. We cruised along at a great speed knocking out 25 miles by 10:30. Up to this point we had seen less than a dozen boats on the river and none were driving fast. As we neared the city we ran into many pleasure boats zipping along at full speed and several times we were almost run over. We hugged the banks and enjoyed looking at all the big houses and boats along the banks. At 40 miles we came to our last dam we had to portage. It was a easy 100 yards down and around. After finishing we laughed that after 14 portages we finally perfected it on the last one. The dam area was full of hundreds of people enjoying the day and not one person asked what we were doing or said hello, we were in the big city for sure. We paddled down stream from the dam and saw the sky scrapers ahead. We found our first island sandbar and made camp. We were meeting another river angel in the morning for a ride around some falls in town.