We are heading to the Quad Cities and have decided to get shuttled down to St. Louis. The reason for this is because flooding has gotten so bad that we can not longer paddle until the water has passed. Lock and dam #20 is completely underwater and all other locks and dams are closed so we really cannot move. We had the decision to stay in the Quad Cities for a long period of time or go down to St. Louis and wait out some time too. We decided that for us to get a full experience on the river we would shuttle part of the river to St. Louis.
We will be living in someones front yard with tents set up.
Some of the factors to shuttling was that there are more learning opportunities with museums and local political organizations that we could get into contact with. We also took in diversity in the city, there are a lot more people of color in the south and it has been awhile since we have seen diversity a long the river. We also looked at the weather and if we stayed in the Quad Cities we would be sleeping in snow. St. Louis is going to be about 10 degrees warmer.
Though it is upsetting to set down the paddles I think this is also a good thing because most of us have not been able to do much school work. We have hefty amounts of reading, papers, and lectures to catch up on. I think so far my biggest critique of the program is balancing school with the expedition and integrating the two for the full "experiential learning".
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