~~~ Barges on the Mississippi ~~~

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One of the things we love to do the most while we are here at Tom Sawyer's Mississippi River RV Park in West Memphis is to sit by the bank and watch the tugboats go up & down the Great Mississippi... We see so many different kinds and wonder what are they hauling and where are they going. There are small ones and big ones and long ones and short ones. It doesn't matter to us we love them all! I hope you enjoy my pictures of all the different tugs & barges that we see each day while we are here.

Alyssah enjoying the view and a small tug unloading it's haul at the docks

After sitting around working so hard watching the tugs & barges we finally worked up an appetite. Well back to my list of Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives we chose to go to Uncle Lou's Fried Chicken... We enter the address into our GPS and off we go. We finally arrive and it is in a strip mall & looks kind of iffy to me BUT I say let's go in. Guy Fieri would not steer us wrong would he??? Well he didn't! First thing I notice when I walk in there sits Uncle Lou just a smiling and welcoming us to his restaurant (DIVE). I got so excited you would have thought I was looking at Johnny Depp. After we took a picture with him I got so bust chatting about his debut on TV and all I took no other pictures... He has his original and his spicy sweet love sauce that you can have on the chicken... you can even choose both and we did... all I can say is that was some of the best chicken I have ever had. If that wasn't enough his biscuits are baked to perfection and then dipped into a honey sauce... OMG! I thought I had died and went to heaven. SO if your ever here and want some fine fried chicken go there...

Do not be afraid it is so good you will not regret it.

Here are the only two pictures I took... That Uncle Lou had me all excited...

Isn't he just so cute and cuddly like a little teddy bear.

Here is a picture of the food but I got it off the Internet because I forgot to take one... DUH!

Also if you want to see Uncle Lou's on TV again he'll be on the Best thing I ever ate with my fingers on the Food Network August 11th at 8:30 pm

Well it was another great day and just look at the beautiful moon pictures I got...

See the barge in the first one and how about the beautiful reflection

on the river in the 2nd one

I sure hope you liked my barges and if you want to see them

closer just double click on any of the pictures

Until Later

All the way to Memphis we go......ta da ta da ta ta

Good Morning all you "HAPPY CAMPERS" Oh ya!!! I am the happy camper... Oh yes and Chris the happy camper too..

Good Morning all you lovely ladies and gentlemen....

I Hope & Pray for a cure so no others have to be struck with the horrible disease... Tell everyone you know to go out and get a mammogram... Early detection is the best defence... It can make a HUGE difference. It did for me...

Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us

The road to Memphis was good... As I remember from last trip through this area the road (I40) was in desperate need of repair. The trip was about 286 miles which went by pretty fast... We went from Sunshine to Rain to Sunshine and then finished up with a light shower after we got all set up in the campground. We did see some changing of the leaves but very little unlike we did up in the Dakota's... the closer we got to Memphis the less there was...

Here are some pictures taken through the front window... So any buggie splats you see I am sorry... I know ewwwwww.... If can't see them and you want to just enlarge pictures... lol

I am not sure what this crop on the left is but it was pretty and of course the other is cotton fields which I always find to be pretty... like snow

Love the tugboats that go up & down the Mississippi River. They travel all day and night.

The first picture is a view from out our front window and the second is of course the moon shots I love so dearly... The full moon is tonight so don't forget to go out and HOWL at the moon...

Sorry the pictures are a little hazy but it was a hazy day off and on... We have no site seeing plans for today but sit outside by the river and watch all the tugsboats and barges go by...

Until Later

Could not resist her... isn't she cute