The beginning of the journey

Ananda
Ron Welch
Wed 8 Dec 2010 05:35
Ananda left Joe Wheeler Marina in northern Alabama on Saturday 4 December and headed west on the Tennessee River. By Sunday we
had arrived at the junction of the Tennessee and Tom Bigbee Waterway. For the last two days we have been moving south on the Tom
Bigbee in very cold weather, with temperatures in the lower 20s at night and maybe 40 during the late afternoon. The weather has been
unseasonably cold this year and it sure would have been nicer going if we had left 2-3 weeks earlier.

Presently it is 7 December 2010 and we are near Aberdeen MS at 33 50.42N 88 30.51W having passed through two locks on the Tennessee
River and six so far on the Tom Bigbee Waterway. Only six more locks to the Gulf.