Everything We Need

Yesterday we crossed the Ohio River not far from its confluence with the Mississippi. This is not our original route. I had planned to stay two weeks near Nashville, hoping to meet Jamie at the airport and drive with her to watch Adler compete in Johnson City in eastern Tennessee. But after two years where they did compete there, the band is not going this year.

So instead we came to Columbus-Belmont State Park on the Mississippi River in Kentucky. We are on our way south to a park north of Memphis and I will drive down and meet Jamie and Sean to watch Adler and the band compete in Memphis.

We had been here in November of 2022 and although this year I couldn’t get one of these sites with their river sunsets,

Matey and I can still walk the bluffs above the Mississippi.

The park is mostly the same as I remember it but I do see that erosion of these bluffs continues.

With all that vegetation you’d think these slopes would be protected. I guess not as you can see a small gully working its way back into the grassy bluff.

Otherwise the place is as pretty as I remember.

Everything looks in great shape. They were finishing up some grooming this morning.

Turns out this weekend there is going to be a civil war reenactment here.

The whole park is full of entrenchments, dug by the Confederates but only held by them for a year.

They were put here to guard against Northern invasion down the Mississippi, but when Kentucky fell to the Union this position was taken over by the North to aid in that invasion.

I wonder what battle they will reenact, as no battles were fought here.

As for us, we’re just here for one day and I needed to get wash done. There are two washers and two dryers,

just steps from our camper. And Bud found an auto parts store 10 miles from here where he got a replacement taillight bulb.

Wash done, repairs done, and lovely places to walk; we’re all set.