Love Me Fender

  Week 15 Oct 20-26 Monday We spent another beautiful fall day in green turtle bay, Kentucky. The temperatures were in the low 70s. It gets colder at night. We took a long scooter ride with Eddie and Karen and rode over the bridge to the island called the land between the lakes. It's a national recreation area between Barkley lake and Kentucky lake. There's lots of paths to ride around. We saw a baby bobcat. It ran and stopped right in the middle of our path. We were looking around for the momma but didn't see her. It was so nice and rejuvenating to spend several hours out in nature. I had another kinked neck. It's so darn painful. I think I got it from jumping in the middle of the night. Our smoke detector went off. It's so loud! Kathy from Avontour lent me a cold pack. It worked wonders! We had another fun laughter filled dinner with Pat, Liz, Kathy, and Brian. Tuesday We left this morning to head down the river to París landing State Park, Tennessee. We went down...

 Week 14 Oct 13-19 Monday We left this morning just before 7. Our first lock was right outside the marina we waited 1 hour to get in. That wasn't too bad. The next lock we only waited about 20 min. We traveled 86 Nautical miles down the Mississippi river today. We tied up to the lock wall at Kaskaskia with 6 other looper boats. The highlight today was Liz from good karma fed us all day. Her boat was like a drive up window. It started as a joke early this morning, but Liz took it to heart and made breakfast tacos. We would pull up along side and she'd hand us a grocery sack from one moving boat on the Mississippi to another. I tossed her some of our pumpkin bread and pumpkin roll. Lunch she had leftovers of chicken and dumplings. 😀 It looked like a drive up window with several boats line up to come along side their big yacht. See the action on our YouTube video. For dinner they had us all,13 people, on their boat for chicken gumbo. She always has so much food on her boat beca...