The picture from the bow of Nonchalance in the marina shows Tennessee on the right, Alabama straight across the water and Mississippi across the river to the left. We plan to stay here a week and get an Enterprise Rentacar to see the Tennessee and Kentucky area. Wednesday is supposed to be nice, so we’re going to see Shiloh, the civil war battlefield which we passed on the river today.
I have been marking the Great Circle Route Map in red as we move. It’s starting to show some progress.
We stayed last night in Pebble Isle Marina on Kentucky lake, which is a huge lake full of picturesque scenes, homes and trailer parks along the banks, and levees built out of riprap (truckloads of big rocks dumped down the river banks to stop erosion), vacation homes built on 15 ft. pilings above the 20 ft. levees to protect against floods (see picture).
There are also palisades of sandstone carved out by the river over the ages past. This picture of the palisades isn’t unusual palisade, they are like that all up and down the river here. The Fall colors are beautiful now, but we haven’t had enough sun to really enjoy them. The picture was taken when the sun was out for a while, but it’s been too cloudy and cold. Yesterday (Sunday) was the only beautiful day recently, with temps in the 70s. It was nice to wear short sleeved shirts and walk around feeling warm.
The sunset was this evening after we tied up at the marina. It was about 5:30 PM after sundown.
Oh, yeah….my sis, Beth, wanted a picture of Daisy so here’s a couple from today.
1 comment:
If my history is correct, General Sherman made quite a name for himself at Shiloh. I understand that he was slightly injured twice and had three horses shot out from under him. The level of fighting was very fierce. Grant aslo was quite a leader at Shiloh. One of his famous quotes was "Retreat, No!, I propose to attack at daylight and whip them"
Jay
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