Day 50

Day 50
Everyone slept in late this morning, Mike and guide Tanner started loading boats for transport to Kansas City. There is a yearly canoe race called the MR 340. The MR 340 is an endurance race across the state of Missouri. Mike was delivering 2 large canoes to teams competing in the race. One of the guides took me to local grocery store to grab a resupply for when I get back on the river. I love to cook and was excited to buy chicken, yellow squash, zucinni squash, potatoes and bread to put together a feed for everyone still at the canoe house. Christine and I shared a few conversations a trash on the river. She is working to close a large fill dump on the river. A company was granted a permit to dump "clean fill" on a large marshy area to build a development in the future. The site is around 50 acres of this clean fill, rocks, broken concrete, dirt, bricks and other mixed construction trash. The company had a permit for a year and it has continued to dump fill for several years past the permit date. Someone is also supposed to be providing over site of the site and that has also not been happening. The river here is full of garbage and the streets all also lined with trash of all types. It will take a huge effort to cleanup the river and city and trash is not something people want to talk about. Mike and Tanner got on the road to Kansas City later in the afternoon around the time I fired up the grill to start smoking the chicken. While I was making supper every gathered some wood and started a nice fire in the backyard. We all enjoyed another relaxing evening telling river stories and restoring much needed calories.