Returning To The Loop

Boat time seems to have its own cadence; it is a slower pace but the constant moving makes the days pass quickly. All our planning is done in "day" increments which led to me calculate how many days had we been "off the loop". I was surprised to find it had been 54. We did do quite a bit of traveling in those 54 days (including our trip home to NH), but we are very happy to get back on the route and looking forward to our next big milestone of entering the Gulf of Mexico. Not too many pictures for this post as it was retracing our steps until we turned onto Yellow Creek near Iuka, MS (our 14th state).

Leaves floating by the boat on Tellico Lake

Sunrise on our last day before heading west

Goodbye to the Smoky Mountains

Passed lots of boat and engine companies - this looks like a model being released in 2025

Another glorious morning as we leave Lenoir City

When you can't decide what boat to get :)

Obviously a favorite spot for some type of bird

Passing by Chattanooga

Farm has their own barge to get to the fields across the river

Emilie B enjoyed an abandoned resort on Watts Bar Lake

Our new dinghy!!!

The fall colors are fading

Didn't see this view on the way East - mining looks like it will remove the whole hill

Neighbors with contrasting views

You see flocks of these coots everywhere - 100s together at a time

We've seen these ships a couple of times, they were tied up to the same dock as us in Scottsboro, AL

Sky was filled with American White Pelicans

Iuka, MS

We head out at sunrise to start our travel south toward Mobile, AL

View from the front of the boat

Colors swirling in our wake

84 foot drop in the Whitten Lock

Whitten Lock with our traveling companion for scale

We left the loop on Sept 22 and returned on Nov 15