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This Trip Has Really Turned to Sh*t
I had another post ready to go but the events of the last couple of days have overwhelmed it and made it irrelevant. I was going to write about our last day in New Orleans, our flight to Atlanta and our drive north to the town of Cherokee where we expecting to begin a wonderful […]
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We’ve Reached New Orleans
We arrived in New Orleans to see a beautiful sunrise (and as the shepherds warned, this brought us a wet afternoon with rain and a thunderstorm). I went on a city tour this morning so that I could get an overview of the city and decide some of the best ways to spend our days […]
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Saint Francisville, Louisiana
Saint Francisville is another makeshift stop for us as we will be bypassing our original visit to Baton Rouge because the dock is underwater. It gets its names from some Catholic Priests who lived in the St Francis monastery on the other side of the river but buried their dead here because it was on […]
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Learning About Cotton
I was up at 6.00 am this morning as there was a hot air balloon festival in Natchez this weekend and I was hoping to see some of them. Its appears that they were flying from a more remote place today and we couldn’t see any of them from the river. There was some good […]
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Vicksburg
Vicksburg is an historic American city, located on a high bluff on the east bank of the Mississippi River across from Louisiana. We arrived there by 7.00 am this morning and were moored at the dock before breakfast. The town was originally built by French colonists in 1719, in an area occupied by the Natchez […]
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Greenville, Mississippi
Overnight we travelled further south down the Mississippi and this morning we reached the town of Greenville in Mississippi. Greenville is a port on the Mississippi – Yazoo River plain. There were two previous versions of this town further down the river. These were destroyed in the Civil War. The town was named after the […]
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Memphis
Memphis is the home of Blues, Gospel and Rock and Roll music. Our boat travelled over to the city dock near Beale Street two nights ago. This gave us access to some of the city sights and being able to see and do things feels much better after all the time we spent filling in […]
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Floating Down the River Aimlessly
After leaving Paducah, we have spent two days floating down the last stretch of the Ohio River and joined the Mississippi near the town of Cairo. We don’t really have a lot to report as nothing much has taken place. Back in the Ohio River, we were unable to dock at the town of Cape […]
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Paducah
Further down the Ohio River is the town of Paducah. Known as the City of Craft and Folk Art, Paducah is a river city, located right where the Tennessee and Ohio rivers merge. It was founded in 1827 by William Clark of America’s famous Lewis & Clark expedition. Lewis and Clark were early explorers who, […]
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A Detour on the Cumberland River
We continued down the Ohio River on Wednesday and late in the afternoon we turned left (east) into the Cumberland River. This is a tributary of the Ohio but only about one quarter of the width. We passed through farmland that was being irrigated and growing soy beans. They were being harvested as we passed. […]
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On the Ohio River
On Monday, we had a two hour flight down to Louisville, from Minneapolis. It was one of those relocation days where a two-hour flight managed to take the whole day. We had a view of some interesting use of the airports at each end of the flight. On leaving Minneapolis, we could see a few […]
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Minneapolis
Jill’s bag arrived at about 11.30 pm on our first night in Minneapolis but by then we were well and truly in dreamland, only to be wide awake and bushy-tailed again at 2.00 am with jet lag. She was very glad to see her things again when we picked the bag from reception first thing […]
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