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When we headed out Wednesday morning, we noticed that this stranger had arrived…Worker bees…we did not volunteer to hang around and help. We were on our way to Blue Springs Marina, Ten Mile, Tennessee…restaurant, plugged in to AC…woo hoo. No co…

Little Paint Creek was a delightful anchorage…lots of swing room…No neighbors to speak of. There was a family at the entrance swimming in the shallows and canoeing…but they left before 6. The water was just too cool for our liking…but we did si…

Floyd couldn’t resist these photos of Wilson Island…that’s my maiden name…he’s been amazed to learn that I was born in Wilson County…and the High School Gym in Fredonia is named in honor of my day…so now he claims I also own an island…What a …

Seeing the same scenery is a new experience for us…and must say it didn’t take long to grow old….then we began to notice the differences…Like these cows cooling themselves in the river…where were they on that first trip through???

This Miles-Kimball plant was certainly busier than when we were here earlier….maybe because we came by the first time on Sunday???? Mid-week, it was hopping!!!! We could smell it before we came around the bend…once you’ve sniffed a paper mill, you …

True to our plan…we gassed up and pumped out then headed through Fort Loudoun Lock to our anchorage at Little Paint Rock Creek. Just for grins, I asked Floyd to take this photo of what I see as we are at the bottom of the lock wall…looking up…wei…

Rained most of the day on Monday…fine with us…we were doing serious grocery shopping and laundry. This is probably our last chance until we get back to Huntsville…temps today are to be high 80s…we’ll head out around noon, go through the lock (g…

We plan to do serious laundry and grocery shopping tomorrow with the courtesy van…then Tuesday we’ll be headed out and down…thinking we’ll be back in Huntsville around the 25th…and headed back to Wichita soon thereafter….going to try to spend a…

Outta there at 9ish Sunday morning…light drizzle and rain predicted for most of the day…our 5 hour run back to Fort Loudoun was uneventful…though we did spot two tires and enough lumber floating in the river to build a house…my, my, we are not …

Volunteer Landing in Knoxville is the most expensive place we’ve stopped on this trip…we were in a slip that was just a couple of feet too short….at $2 a foot and no water…and with the heat and hardship we encountered trying to see a few sights…..