Another safe voyage. We are now tucked into Rock Harbour Marina, Nashville, Tennessee. We left Barkley lake on Wednesday (August 6) morning, traveled 10 hours on Wednesday, anchored just outside the channel on the Cumberland River, then traveled another 9 hours on Thursday. It was HOT and miserable on Wednesday. Gees, I'm sure Muriel wondered why we thought this would be fun. Thursday was cloudy and not so hot. Though I won't say it was exactly comfortable. The challenge of traveling at less than 8 mph is there is very little breeze. We have laughed to think that we could have driven to Nashville from where we were in about 3 hours. But then we would have missed the sites. Huge lake and lovely skiing water conditions on the river...smooth and glassy...what the folks in Kansas wouldn't give to have this. Yet, in the two days we maybe saw 10 fishing boats of people, 3 barges (mostly empty) and just a couple of jet skis. What we did observe were EAGLES. What a thrill that was. We even passed pretty close to a nest of some young squawking ones. Today and tomorrow we will tour Nashville. We have tickets to the Grand Old Opery on Saturday nite...Carrie Underwood is suppose to be there. Muriel leaves us on Sunday and then we are on our own again. Who knows what trouble we'll get into? We must add that on our return from Wisconsin we stopped in Springfield Ill to tour the Abe Lincoln Museum..what a delightful experience. Glad we did that and would recommend it. We somehow managed to avoid the crowds by going on Sunday morning. I do feel officially retired now. I received my first KPERS check and teachers in Wichita have returned to work...but not ME...hehehe. Keep in touch.