Well, we are making progress, albeit slowly! We arrived at the Columbus Marina in Columbus, MS on Tuesday afternoon of last week and left Thursday morning. We only traveled about 30 miles and went through one lock before finding a nice anchorage with a sandy beach just off the main waterway where we spent three nights enjoying some cooler weather and refreshingly cool water.

Since there are six locks in the remaining 46 miles to Bay Springs Lake, we decided to split it up into two days. If it was just the mileage, it would be easy to make the trip in one day, but the locks can really slow you down, especially if you have to wait an hour or two for a barge to lock through ahead of you. Even though we've had good luck with the locks so far, three locks in one day is more than enough for me!

We went 28 miles and through three locks yesterday and are currently at Midway Marina in Fulton, MS; we will go the remaining 18 miles and three locks today. The final lock before entering Bay Springs Lake is an 84-foot lift whereas all of the other locks have been about a 27-foot lift. I can't imagine how intimidating that's going to be!

We have our new Cingular wireless data card to access the Internet/e-mail while we're on the move, but it has been painfully slow and unreliable when we're on the water, even with a good cell signal, so we may not be able to update the blog again until we're at a marina with wi-fi access and I'm not sure when that's going to be. Or, maybe we'll get lucky and the Cingular card will actually work like it's supposed to! At any rate, stay tuned and we'll try to get some more pictures posted with the next update.