It has almost already been a week since we left Nashville, and we are now back enroute towards Mobile, Alabama and the Gulf of Mexico. Since our last blog, we travelled northwest, back down the Cumberland and into Barkley Lake, deciding to stop again at Green Turtle Bay at the northern end of the lake to refuel, fill up with water and provision up. For those of you “boat people”, this is our first fuel fill since Port Washington on Lake Michigan. When we arrived in Green Turtle Bay, we had used 160 gallons since then, and travelled 841 miles. That is an average of 5.25 miles to a gallon. For you non-boaters (or in my own simple terms), that is a lot of distance on very little fuel! On our way back to Barkley Lake,
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