Clifton, TN to Pickwick Lake, MS

Trip dates: 
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 to Friday, October 1, 2021
Trip length: 
10 days
Type of watercraft: 
Power
  • Hide Aweigh arriving at Clifton, TN
  • There are artsy tigers all over Memphis (for the Univ of Memphis Tigers mascot)
  • Tenn-Tom Waterway
  • The Whitten lock has an 84 ft depth and is the fourth deepest lock in the US

We left Paris Landing on a beautiful morning and made our way down Kentucky Lake into the Tennessee River. We stayed in a great little marina in Clifton, Tennessee. We did some teleworking the next day, and left in the late morning, heading for Pickwick Lock and Dam.  They have had a lot of rain this summer, so the water was pretty high and the current was against us. Nonetheless, we persevered and made it through the lock and down to the  Aqua Yacht Safe Harbor Marina. Since yours truly was born and raised in Memphis, we had family drive the not quite two hours to come pick us up for a long weekend. Unfortunately, that involved a funeral, but I'm glad that I was there to bid my longtime friend a fond farewell. We spent another few days at Pickwick Lake and departed there on September 30. We found an excellent anchorage spot down the Tennessee Tombigbee waterway near Midway marina in Fulton,  Mississippi.  We got an early start on October 1 and headed to Columbus, Mississippi, which is about 70 miles down the Tenn-Tom waterway. The hubby has a work emergency so he has to fly back to DC this weekend. He will return on Monday, so I'm sure I can get some things done without him underfoot. We plan to stay in Columbus for another week or so, as I have a big work project coming up. We  had already planned to fly to DC for  the Columbus Day weekend to move the little we have left to Jacksonville,  FL for the winter.