DAY 6 - October 7, 2023

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We spent the night tied up to the fuel dock at Inland Marina in Evansville. This morning Denise decided to take a walk and found this store at the top of the marina. While talking to the girls that worked there she found out they sold Kentucky Lottery tickets. Even though Evansville is in Indiana, the horseshoe bend the river is on extends across the Kentucky state line. The store's parking lot is in Indiana, but once you enter the store you're in Kentucky.

Upon passing by Evansville, we saw their famous LST which is the last operational World War 2 landing craft in existence. During the war, the Evansville Shipyard built 167 of these crafts. Today the ship serves as a traveling museum to cities up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, but always returns to its home port of Evansville.

Our first stop of the morning was Henderson, Kentucky. In the video you can see our boat tied up to one of the city docks with Denise taking out our garbage and a towboat with barges passing behind.

Henderson has a nice park and easy access to downtown. We visited a 

Walgreens to resupply (actually to get stuff we forgot to take).

Once of the reasons we started our trip at this time of year was to follow the fall colors as we head south. Some of the trees are beginning to change now and by the time we make it to a planned stop in the northern part of Alabama November 7th, we should see a lot more change.

Our next stop was Mount Vernon, Indiana. We took a walk around a couple of blocks, took this photo of the courthouse and then moved on. Our goal was to make it to the John T. Meyer Lock & Dam. We knew there have been delays for several months, so we called ahead. They said they had nine commercial lockages in line and told us to call back in the morning. So, we backtracked about five miles and are anchored in the middle of what looks like a river, but is actually the backside of an island. It's too shallow for commercial traffic, but deep enough for us to spend the night.

Today we traveled 50.1 miles, but five of those were back track. So I guess we should subtract the last five miles and the five backtrack miles and count forty miles as the amount of progress made today.