Author Archives: The Hermes

There is a trail system that goes from the Chickamauga dam down to the city of Chattanooga.  Here is a map of that trail Pretty cool that the map shows the distance and everything.  Today we went from the Fishing … Continue reading →

 20150520  After much pondering and research, we have completed a list of things that we want to see and do while we are here.  Today we picked this one to do as we thought it would give us some idea … Continue reading →

20150514 We decided to fix our Bimini that got blown off in the storm while we were at Dog River marina.  If you recall, the canvas was in tip-top shape, but one of the rails pulled out of the roof … Continue reading →

We left on this our final day of travel at 7:00 A.M..  It was 60 degrees.  The cat is like Are we there yet???? The Admiral took over the driving in the morning  so she could take lots of pictures … Continue reading →

Only 48 miles today and then we are staying at an anchorage tonight.  The river has narrowed down some and it is a little more windy (windy like wind up the watch, not windy like the wind blew my hat … Continue reading →

We had another short day today, only 44 miles and one lock.  We seem to be doing a lot of short days.  That’s all right with us because we find that we’d rather get up and leave early and arrive early … Continue reading →

We have another short day today, only 57 miles and no locks.  Gary let me pull away from the dock this morning.  Bow thrust off, wheel to the right, power off.  Easy smeazy.  I did pretty good ;).  No wind … Continue reading →

We called the Wilson lock this morning by phone to see when they could get us thru, they said we should mosey on over and it should only be about 45 minutes so we left the marina and slowly made … Continue reading →

We were able to sleep in today, we have another short day, only 43 miles and no locks.  The next lock we have to go thru, the Wilson lock, is being shut down on the 5th so we are trying … Continue reading →

We left Midway marina  at 6:15 today.  It was 46°.  It keeps getting colder and colder but it certainly makes for nice sleeping weather.  We had pretty heavy fog this morning And had to use our radar It didn’t last … Continue reading →