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Underway again

A travel blog entry by my-house

... it.

I have the old coupling and took some pictures. It is supposed to have a nice square slot and this one has 2 and the shaft slot looked worse. I just couldn't get down there to take a picture while he was working on it.

It was cold and rainy the last few days so we would have been here at the marina anyway. Wednesday we are off again southbound with our next major stop planned for Columbus Ms.

The adventure continues
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Suffering at Midway marina

A travel blog entry by my-house

... the shaft key had been wearing back and forth for thousands of shifts and finally tore the keyslots out in the coupling and shaft.

Within and hour I managed to jam it back together and tighten the 2 set screws and crossed my fingers. We decided better to go back 3 miles to Midway then 15 miles to the next marina and the lockmaster let us back out and we limped along at Idle speed ...

Fulton MS to Amory MS

A travel blog entry by apairofpollys

... was nearly demolished by a tornado a year ago. Most all of the debris was cleared but there were a lot of random concrete pads where once a house or business sat. This was so sad to see but at the same time we noticed the re-building was well in place. The high school appeared to be new as were some of the churches, some new businesses,and a lot of hew houses. Very little attention, media and the like goes to a small community after a tragedy like ...

Iuka MS to Fulton MS

A travel blog entry by apairofpollys

Today started off with the yummy breakfast stuff that we picked up yesterday in Iuka (at the 'local' grocer of course!); at this point our bodies were craving Greek yogurt with fresh berries. getting to down to business, Larry started changing a flat tire on Devon's bike. Although we filled all of the tires yesterday, a stitch in time saves nine so we checked the pressure this morning, and Devon's rear tire was about 8 psi low. Sure enough ...

Tupelo By Way of Nashville and the Sheister!

A travel blog entry by cheyenneus

... which is a bit heartbreaking because it's all
blurry and you can't make anyone out! I will see if I can borrow some
pics from Latisha's Facebook page and add them to my blog.
I do hope that we will meet up again someday – happy trails Lindsay's!
After making final preparations I hit the road toward Nashville to pick up my first rider, by the name of Jeff who was heading to New Orleans for work.
I found Jeff, as I do all my riders, on Craigslist rideshare. I ...