Saturday August 12, 2017
A nice day to cruise
After a late evening concern over a thunderstorm passing to the
east of us and some light rain from it, had a fairly peaceful night in our
makeshift anchorage. We woke up to cool
dry air like we get in late September and early October back home. Mary wore her hoodie for a while because it
was coolish at 0600 when we got underway for a 39-mile run to the Kaskashia
river at mile 117 where we found the lock and dam of the same name about a half
mile up. We are securely tied up to the
outside of the lock’s wing wall for the night.
Tomorrow will see us underway for another 40-mile day to reach the famous
ramshackle Hoppies Marina, the only marina on the Mississippi between St Louis
and New Orleans. The piers consist of
three old steel barges lashed together, and the place is run my Fern, a lady of
considerable experience of life and the river and apparently happy to dispense
her knowledge of them to all and sundry.
