Thursday continued

Today we hit the 1,000 mile mark on our trip! The trip mileage will be 1,645 when we make it to Pensocola, Florida. We traveled the last two days on the Kentucky Lake which is part of the Tennessee River. It's sort of like the Mississippi with Lake Pepin but this lake is 180 miles long and is 160,000 acres. That's a big lake, it will take us three days to cover it. It's been a challenge with scattered thunderstorms coming and going, winds and heavy rain. Water depths have ranged from 55 feet deep to 4 feet in about 50 yards away from the 55! Had to constantly watch the GPS.

We had breakfast today in Kentucky, the boats were parked in Tennessee, the state line passing thru the parking lot of the marina. Our waitress was about 21. Just a little cute blonde girl - with a very strong Kentucky accent. She asked where we were from and asked us lots of questions. It ends up she was born and raised in a small town not far from the Marina. We were saying what a beautiful area to grow up in. She didn't really know how to word it but she said no it wasn't. The town only allowed white folk and that she had never seen a colored til she was 18. She didn't agree with how she was brought up and just wanted to see places. Anyway, its just a different world down here. I don't think we'll venture off the river much.

We've had alot of rain, inches at a time. It's been very hot our entire trip and we're either wet from the heat and humidity or the rain. Until today I thought I'd get fungus on parts unknown! This morning the rain finally stopped, we only had to pull in a bay once. It was cooler with less humidity and I think the first time I was dry in 15 days.

Tonight we're staying at Birdsong Resort, Marina and Lakeside RV Campground in Camden Kentucky Lake, Tennesee. When we called on it and made a reservation, it sounded like the Taj Mahal! We went off the river/lake to a channel that was beautiful and very windy with bouys marking where to go because outside the buoys it could be two feet of water. We had to go about three miles to get to the Marina and actually it was very nice with great helpful people manning it. The sun was actually out. Back up to 90 in no time. Anyway, they farm pearls here; the only fresh water pearl farm in North America. They have some beautiful jewelry here and no I haven't bought anything. They even gave us a courtesy car and we thought, hey, not bad at all. Then they brought us to our unit #10 - oh, you'll love your place, we were told. Well, it's a trailer with bushes out front with these God awful webs in them, filled with these wormy things. Well, don't judge the book from the cover. We go in. Well, it's old and yes, it has two bedrooms with two baths. And the only roll of toilet paper we had to share between the two bathrooms. The drawers in the baths have mouse turds, the kitchen, thank God we ordered Dominoes Pizza tonight. 'nuf of that. The country down here is beautiful and actually, we're having a blast, meeting great people and having a wonderful time with Don and Jan and having a once in a lifetime experience. Talk to you later. Love to all. Bye