Michael says Goodbye to Ole Miss

Michael here:

I've decided I must cut my trip short and return home to Columbus after just one week, while Rem will attempt to continue on. I really hated making it, but between the delay of having to wait for a mast and the arrival of Dennis, the first hurricane to make Gulf coast landfall in 68 years in July, then the river conditions afterward for a few weeks as it all drains to the Miss. , I won't be able to finish the trip and be back in time. So while I am as close as I am, here in Memphis, I have to make the trip now rather than later, while in a major city, and only a medium length torturous 16 hour bus ride home. I'm sure Rem will continue the trip after the boat is fixed up and ship shape (he may fix other things and paint her while she's being worked on. Nothing like a nip and tuck while your fixing a broken bone eh? ;-) ). And I'm sure Rem will continue to post his adventures to this blog.

I did have fun in Memphis this last weekend, it's a very nice city, and the marina and mud island park is awesome, but it always seems to smell like wet red hay. Don't ask me what red hay is, but that's the smell.

I'll continue to post about all the other things in the last week we didn't get to because of all the technical difficulties, including how Rem charmed the socks off 3 librarians by playing a piano that was in the library, immediately after we posted out last posts. (First time *I've* ever seen a piano in a one floor library).

For now, I'm signing off. Thanks for the opportunity.

Michael