Ready to Go

It has been a great week at Green Turtle Bay Marina in Grand Rivers, KY. We really needed a chance to catch our breath after the rivers. This is a very relaxing place and the trees are just starting to turn colors here. Shelley and I cleaned the boat from top to bottom, and I had some repair work done here as well. They have courtesy cars available, so we could drive into Paducah, Ky to Wal-Mart and do our grocery shopping.

But mostly we just relaxed and re-grouped. Lots of stories being told about the rivers among the 25 or so other Looper boats that are here. It was high adventure, but still the worse part of the trip for me.

We are leaving today to head south down Kentucky Lake, which is the Tennessee River. Actually we are headed up the river, as it is one of the few rivers in the US that flows north. Lake Kentucky is 200 miles long stretching across this western edge of Kentucky, across Tennessee, and into Alabama. There it turns east as you go upriver, back into Tennessee toward the Appalachain Mountains on the Virginia border.

Our plan is to get as far upriver as we can before we attend a Looper rendezvous at Joe Wheeler State Park in Alabama on October 23. Bob and Jean are headed this way in their RV to meet us at Paris Landing State Park for a few days of fishing and golf. It is definitely fall here, with cool nights in the 40's and daytime highs in the 60's and low 70's. Come see us. We are just a few hours east of Memphis. Marc