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TENNESSEE RIVER….THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES

I think a glue should be named after Green Turtle Bay.  The place seems to have this effect on cruisers.  It’s just so hard to leave.  GTB is simply comfortable.  It is a great place to stop if you need to get things done.  The…

ON DOWN/UP THE TENNESSEE RIVER

The Cumberland River is now behind us, save and except for a small piece we shall take to the Barkley Canal which will then take us to the Tennessee River.  Some may say we arrived in the Ohio River Valley a little late in the year.  We, on t…

ON DOWN/UP THE TENNESSEE RIVER

The Cumberland River is now behind us, save and except for a small piece we shall take to the Barkley Canal which will then take us to the Tennessee River.  Some may say we arrived in the Ohio River Valley a little late in the year.  We, on t…

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

We have visited many cities on this voyage of discovery, but few have had as much to offer as Nashville.  Having never been here before, we had no idea what to expect.  What we discovered, however, is a vibrant, bright, friendly, accommodati…

PEACE AND SERENITY ON THE CUMBERLAND RIVER

Recently, one of my friends who reads this dribble asked something along the lines of, “Where the hell are you going?”  We, we are cruising on the Cumberland River on our way to Nashville, yes, Nashville, Tennessee.  Why are we going the…

OHIO RIVER TO THE CUMBERLAND RIVER TO BARKLEY LAKE AND GREEN TURTLE BAY

My last post described our run down the Mississippi River.  At the end of the middle Mississippi, there is yet another confluence; that being with the Ohio River.  The Ohio River is another one of America’s premier western waterways known for…

OUR RUN DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI

This part of the cruise is quite a challenge.  Open water, even on the Great Lakes, is comparatively easy to negotiate.  There, the weather is the biggest factor.  On the rivers, however, there are several additional factors that have to…

MISSOURI….ON A BOAT?

Even assuming for the sake of discussion that this voyage we are on was something I had dreamed of and planned for many years, it really didn’t occur to me that we could visit Missouri by boat.  It did not occur to me until recently that St. Louis…

New Orleans to Gulfport, MS

New Orleans to Gulfport

We had a delightful departure from New Orleans.  After getting fuel, we departed southbound back into the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal down to the turning basin and back onto the GICW.  It was a bright and sunny day …

NEW ORLEANS – "THE BIG EASY"

New Orleans is a city of cultural and architectural diversity all smashed into a small geographical area known as “the Crescent”.  It is surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi and one side by Lake Ponchetrain.  Whereas the city is quit…