#Tennesse-Tombigbee Waterway
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jthurlow · 22 days ago
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Lock Life on the Tenn-Tom Waterway
The Great Loop’s Mississippi/Alabama string of locks along the “Tennessee -Tombigbee” Waterway has been a challenge. The journey is beautiful, but very remote and requires frequent anchoring out. More than anything the cold weather has kept us on our toes. Even Okee is wearing a scarf. She seems slightly irritated. Even so, I wouldn’t trade this experience for anything. Locks & Dams on “Tenn-Tom…
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jthurlow · 1 month ago
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It's Snowing as we finish America's Great Loop
Pickwick Lake, Counce, MS Pickwick Lake is bordered by Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. It is a reservoir created by Pickwick Landing Dam built in the 1930s as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal to overcome poverty and the Great Depression. This is the land of electricity by water and the Tennessee Valley Authority. All along the Great Loop and of course at home, Nature has…
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