Slogging it Out!!!

This picture is of the Russian boat in one of the locks on the Mississippi. We keep seeing them on the rivers.
Now I understand the term “log Jam”! We left our cozy anchorage, made the turn from the Mississippi onto the Ohio and BAM! We were met by a fast moving deluge of “stuff”. There were actual trees racing down the river with some plastic bits bobbing along in the mix. Some boaters saw refrigerators and pieces of furniture. The current on the Ohio was 3 knots and our boat was going at a speed of 11.5 but our actual speed over ground was only 8.5k. We threaded through some narrow areas where you could have walked across on the logs..going so slowly with me as the lookout telling Tom “turn left, now right….It was like being a mine sweeper! We finally got past Paducah Ky and turned on to the peaceful Cumberland river…it was like Mayberry after New York City…We got to Barkley lock went through the lock and came out in to pitch black on big Lake Barkley…there were NO lighted channel markers so we were talked in to the marina by people on land…scarey and exhausting!!!! We tied up and went to bed (after taking poor little Kodi for a much needed walk. Miles travelled about 99 in 12.5 hours!