Tunica in the Rain

Today we are docked in Tunica, MS. Tunica is a little bit south of Memphis, and Memphis has low water. When sailing on a river, the water has to be "perfect"--not too high and not too low. Tunica had the perfect water. Given that, Memphis might have more water now, as we are getting the "backwash" of Hurricane Helene.We have had a constant wind today--not hurricane wind, but wind nonetheless, and lots of rain. In fact we were supposed to go on a shore excursion and decided to call it off. It's not fun to visit a town and see the sites when all you can see is rain, rain and more rain. Don't feel sorry for us. We had a grand time on the boat, visiting with new friends, reading and looking at the river traffic.

We saw the usual barge traffic on the river but we saw a flat covered barge--first one in a while. The guest lecturer told us how to identify what was in a barge by the type of cover. This one had a flat cover and therefore it's probably a tanker barge.

I do have a story about Tunica. One time, many years ago, we camped at a "river boat" casino campground in this little MS town. We checked in the campground and soon the other DrC was feeling poorly but we had to visit the casino and get our "casino cards" as the campground clerk said we needed them. By the next day, he was worse so we saw a doctor. The doctor said he had the flu and he gave him something for it. I don't remember what. For the next few days, I stayed around the RV taking care of an ailing husband--and guess what? I caught the flu too. I saw the same doc; he prescribed the same Rx and we wore out the flu in our RV in the casino campground. Sometime during that fiasco, soneone comes to our door and tells us we have to move because we've not spent enough money at the casino. We tell the nice person that we are really quite sick. No matter, we had to move. SO, we dragged our achy bodies up and moved lock, stock and barrel to another casino campground. By this time, the other DrC was feeling better so he gambled a couple of hours each night so we would not get asked to move again. We always knew that those little cards held a lot of information, but now we had proof just how much information we were giving away.