I think I finally have a strong enough internet connection that I can post some photos from the past 10 days.

When we tried to get TV reception with our over the air antenna, this is what came up on the screen

and internet and cell reception wasn’t much better.

How do you get power from one side of Kentucky Lake to the other side? With huge towers in the lake

This is for my friend Linda – we have a mermaid interest.

On our way to Clifton we saw several houses built right at the edge of cliffs like this.

Clifton was a very interesting little town on the banks of the Tennessee River. We got there early enough that we were able to walk in and explore a bit. The town is Civil War era and has some monuments to people and events from the Civil War.

     

It also had some interesting signs –

     

This one was in the bathroom by the marina office. We met Sonja and she was quite the character.

There were 11 looper boats at the Clifton Marina when we were there. The “restaurant” was just some tables in the marina office and a counter along one wall where they cooked in electric skillets, fry daddys, griddles, crock pots – burgers were cooked on a grill outside and were some of the best burgers we’ve had in a long time. Because their “kitchen”was pretty limited, they made a huge taco buffet for all of us that night. And one of the servers/cooks took a picture of all of us.

Cruising up the river the next day we saw some interesting houses

     

The houses in the left photo reminded us of villas on St. John. And I guess a man’s home really could be a castle!

This one was an interesting use of containers from container ships.

We couldn’t figure out where the cattle came from. Did they get loose from a pasture and wander down in search of water?

I’ll hopefully be able to post more photos tomorrow. We’re headed to a larger marina for a few days so I should have time and internet to be able to upload more.