Day 181-183- October 14, 15 & 16
Clifton, TN to Iuka, MS, a pleasant roll up the river. We were bucking about 1.5MPH current, but made good progress. The architecture was certainly varied! The houses on stilts are still commonplace here... unless they are on a hill like these below. The sexy new Garmin Plotter has a feature called "Auto Guidance", which I have been using extensively. Find where you want to go, touch the screen and select Auto Guidance and it plots the course. Then select "Engage Follow Route" on the autopilot and off you go. But... You have to watch it like a hawk! Three times on today's route it did weird stuff like this - take you off the course, sometimes on to dry land. Trust, but verify! Pickwick Lock. It brings you up 54 feet. This is as high as we will get on this leg of the journey. It's all downhill from here to Mobile, Alabama. A 53' lock has really tall walls and gates. In case you forgot what a lock looks like... The floating bollard makes it easy to