Southeast Missouri State University student Trevor Smith, left, stops Monday along the Mississippi River in downtown Cape Girardeau to speak with Wayne Dewyer. Dewyer of Traverse City, Mich., and his 3-year-old Chesapeake Bay Labrador, Bentley, are traveling south on the Mississippi River on his "shanty boat." "The people you meet on the river are incredible," Dewyer said.
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