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Robert & Kay...

"Kay and I spent last week attending a rendezvous with approximately 180 other boaters in some phase of doing the Loop, at Joe Wheeler State Park in Alabama. Mostly we talked about the next part of our adventure, but one of the fun activities was a dingy race, in which I was blindfolded and had to go backwards, with one other person on the boat as navigator. My friend Larry and I came in second in the race. We also made a side trip by car to Memphis, Tennessee. We visited Graceland, home of Elvis Presley, walked Beale Street and listened to blues players and singers, went down to the bank of the Mississippi River, and drove over the Mississippi to Arkansas. We also made a side trip to Huntsville Alabama and visited the Space Museum, and Botanical Garden, finishing the day off with a great local Bar-B-Que meal."

"After traveling on the Loop since May 14, we finally caught up with Lorenzo Johnson and his wife Lois. Lorenzo and I worked together at the Brunswick Nuclear Plant for over 30 years and discussed and dreamed of doing this adventure one day. Lorenzo and Lois live in Shallotte, North Carolina, and they started the Loop in April."

"We made a side trip by boat up the Tennessee River to Chattanooga, where we currently are. Wow! It is really beginning to get cold on the Tennessee River now. Two days ago we recorded 32 degrees and there was lots of ice on the deck. There were also approximately a dozen wild turkeys walking along the shoreline as the fog lifted. The leaves are really beginning to change now, the reds, yellows, and orange colors are glowing. "

"On our trip up the Tennessee River we passed by Brown's Ferry Nuclear Plant, a sister plant to the Brunswick Nuclear Plant. We also passed by an Andrew Jackson Memorial carved on a cliffside by the Daughters of American Revolution (DAR) organization close to a cave where he hid Civil War supplies. The memorial was carved in the year 1911. "

"A childhood friend, high school classmate and college roommate, Stewart Creech and his wife Frances, who now live in Knoxville, Tennessee, came by to visit, and stayed with us overnight on C-Life. The four of us took in the incline (72 degree) railroad, the Chickamauga & Chattanooga Civil War National Military Park (one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, 34,000 casualties), and a ride on the Coolidge Park Carousel which was built in 1895. Stewart & Frances also brought us some wonderful eastern Tennessee Bar-B-Que pork for our enjoyment! Today we mostly watched preliminary activity for a rowing regatta to be held here this weekend. Reportedly, the largest rowing event in the world. We also celebrated Halloween with our fellow boating friends on the dock this afternoon."

Robert & Kay

C-Life