Loopers, etc.

We were a little sluggish after last night.  We didn't push off of Olgiati Dock until about 9:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.  An hour and a half later we crossed into the Central Time Zone.  It was a fairly uneventful day other than passing a lot of boaters going the opposite direction.  We knew some of them.  Some of them were friends that had gone down to Goose Pond for a long weekend, so we were expecting them.  Also saw "McTug", who was with us in Knoxville, but had gone down to Joe Wheeler for the AGLCA rendezvous.  I guess they like the Tennessee River a lot.  Yesterday we also heard another boater friend "Sea Moore" on the radio so we talked to them for a while.  Unfortunately they were a day ahead of us so we couldn't quite catch up with them.  We are always amazed at how small of a boating community it really is.  At 1:30 p.m. Central Daylight Time we were anchored at Little Cedar Mountain just as we always do both north and south bound.  We were thankful the sun showed itself a little more for the afternoon to help warm us up.  It is funny to be so close to civilization there, but cell service is minimal behind that mountain.  That made for a peaceful afternoon.