Paddlewheel

We took a trip today along the river hunting for the locks. We found the lock but we also learned there are two Mississippi Rivers. There are several stations called Old river controls. They keep the Mississippi running where they want it to. Even the poor old Mississippi can't flow where it wants to. They also have a hydroelectric station producing electricity. The man from the corp of engineers showed us around and explained things. It was very interesting too. You can't get close to anything without an escort. Such a shame. We went on down the road and found the locks. There was a tug there so we got a close up of her. On the way down the river we saw this RV Camp so we decided to check it out on the way home.

Well we stopped and it was not for us we are always hunting cheap camp sites. That's when we found out it is on the old river as they call it. There were some permanent homes there and they were on stilts. Now we know what that means. Lowell figured the mosquitos would carry us off too. We didn't even check the price it was very obvious we couldn't get our satelite to work. Can't stay here. But we were so happy we went back there. There was an old paddlewheel just rotting away on the bank. Guess it just washed up there and there it died. What a shame . But we sent a picture back to Mark and Ersta figured they would want to refurbish it. After all they did such a good job on theirs. But we haven't heard from them.

I did get AJ and Morgans Christmas stockings done.