John left around 1030 am. I was ready to go by 11am but stopped to see if Toby wanted to paddle too. He expressed his need to catch a fish and relax by the beach, and also collect his thoughts In this time we talked, a nice boat pulled up to our beach with a family of people. Maybe 7 children and 5 6 adults, 3 dogs. We said, okay now is time to go.
But before we left, one of the fathers from Croatia came over and indulged in some conversation about our journey. He offered us 2 warm beers, of which we took.
We paddled the next 30km in the beating hot sun, it was bad. Lots of sweat, but no tears.
We stopped to take a swim in the river and at one point found we could walk across the river!
We pulled into Vukavar, Croatia around 430 to meet John... he was passed out on a bench. Apparently he had a nice nap.
We stopped for ice cream, which was amazing.
We went to the only store open to buy water, chips, and granola bars.
Our next stop was for burgers, which was amazing too.
Last stop was for beer. Which turned in to 2 beers and a shot... with a beautiful waitress.
We left around 730 with a 2 liter bottle of beer and some food. Twas nice.
We paddled through the night till we found camp, drank the beer, and wine, and talked politics, and passed out in good spirits.
I love this journey.
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Ps there was no hukkah bar in vukavar.
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