Trenton Ky

Nice travel day today. Normally we eat breakfast on the boat, but since I still had a birthday breakfast coupon at Denny’s, that’s where we ate. Turned off the interstate just south of Mattoon, and took some smaller back highways through Montrose, Il, Newton, Il, Olney, Il, Grayville, Il, then on to I64 and I69 past Evansville, In, into Hopkinsville, KY, and then on some country roads into Trenton. Nice scenery, and smoother roads, and not as busy as the interstate! While stopped for fuel and lunch at the Love’s truck stop in Hanson, KY (gas was $2.59 a gallon, and with my .10/gal off card, 2.49, so topped the boat’s tank off with 47 gals!) during my walk around, found a screw in one of the boat trailer tires. Still hadn’t lost air, but decided the prudent thing to do was to put the spare on! At Rosanne’s Uncle’s place now. We use the church parking lot across the street to “boaterhome”. Mt. Pisgah Church congregation has slowly dwindled to the point that there are no more services. Not sure what will happen to the church now. Besides the tire, the other glitch for the day was forgetting my rain coat at the service shop that mounted the second spare tire I had on the disabled tire’s rim. Hope to pick it back up tomorrow! We did run into some light rain today, including here in Trenton. But looks like that is the end of the Hurricane Helene rain here. We’ll stay here two nights, before continuing on to Harrison Bay State Park to launch on the upper Tennessee River. All indications right now is that the River will not flood, but we may see some high currents. My buddy Bill launched this morning and went up stream about 20 miles to anchor. He said he saw some places with 1mph current, but that was about it. He is in a wider part of the river. TVA reports that they are releasing a lot of water out of the Fort Loudoun dam and the River Gorge downstream of Chattanooga, is closed to commercial traffic due to water flow and current. Hopefully by Wednesday when we launch, we won’t be much affected.Lue lisää