Columbus

We thought we were in no rush today so we didn't roll ourselves out of bed in time to depart Sumter Recreation Area until about 7:45 this morning.  The plan was to make it to Pickensville Recreation Area.  We got through Bevill Lock with perfect timing as we heard a tow in it headed north earlier, then a pleasure craft headed south.  So the doors were open for us with giving him a 15 minute warning.  A few miles after the lock was our intended destination for the day, but it was covered up in holiday weekend warrior boaters, and it was early so we decided to push on.  Besides, "The Bar-B" did not leave Demopolis today, so they will never catch up to us anyway.
Starting at about 2:15 p.m. we were skirting back and forth over the Alabama and Mississippi border for about a half hour until we stayed in Mississippi where we will do so until just after we turn onto the Tennessee River.
Shortly after five o'clock we turned off the Tombigbee River into a cutoff river near Columbus.  We have anchored in this river a few years ago, but have never been on the north side of the bridges closer to town.  It took almost 45 minutes of slow going, but decided to anchor about a half mile northwest of the Highway 45 & 82 bridge.
We were settled in for a little while when Ray decided we had a beer emergency after restocking the cooler.  He said "I don't know what I was thinking when I estimated enough beer for the rest of the trip.". Maybe he was going by how much we drank out of it lately with all of the landfall we have made to drink in those establishments.  Now that we will be at anchor until we arrive in Chattanooga it is a little different.  So we decided to hop in the dinghy and go back a half of a mile to that bridge, then walk about a quarter of a mile to the Chevron convenience store.  We are getting wiser though, we called ahead to make sure they sold Corona Light.  Not wise enough to remember the trash though in our big hurry to get this done before dark.  That ended up being no problem at all.  The only problem was that the store only had regular Corona in a 12 pack, and only two of those.  I guess it all worked out for the best though since they fit perfectly in the little cart we brought along.  We didn't find a need to take Matt up on his offer if we needed anything.  He was another weekend warrior boater that came by and talked to us.