The Mississippi by Raft

The first thing you will learn about the Mississippi River if you travel the length of it, is that “Tug Boats Rule.”
These “monsters” that are pushing their massive loads in barges, both rule the day and the night and take no prisoners.
For if someone tells you that they traveled the river and do not inform you of this, then they have done you a grave disservice.
For either they hugged the shoreline the whole way, so as to keep themselves out of harm’s way, or they didn’t go at all.
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