Our trip is winding down. We're camped below the dam of Lake Dale Hollow, near Celina, Tennessee. We're here to visit ML's cousin. The camp is a Corps of Engineers camp on the bank of the Obey (oh-bee) River. We're adjacent to a fish hatchery and there are a couple of water discharges from there flowing into the Obey. We drove to the other side of the dam to kayak in the main lake. Houseboats are a big thing here. I can't say that Celina would be a destination for any purpose if you didn't have a reason to come here. It's probably the largest town I have seen that didn't have a stop light that we saw. Anyway, after two restful day (nights) here, we down the road to another COE campground on Lake Center Hill, east of Nashville. We're here for two nights on our way to Huntsville, Alabama for ML's family reunion this weekend. We were able to get a prime campsite 'on the water'. We've done a lot of kayaking here. It's a beautiful spot. We paddled to a very large marina with many big houseboats. Here's the biggest we saw. That's a Tennessee Titans flag on the back. Oh and by the way, we've see a couple of commercials for Gallery Furniture with Mattress Mac up here. Go figure. The shores of this lake are mostly rock formations - steep and making the lake very deep. We really hated to leave this place, but we had to move on. There was one more stop to make before reaching Huntsville. I mentioned we had been 'immersed' in airplanes, RV's and tanks. In Lynchburg, Tennessee, we were immersed in Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey. Well, umm,,, you know what I mean. Since we had been 'sampling' cheese, cherries, wine, etc., I thought we might get a sample here, but no, it's a dry county!! Our tour guide played the hillbilly part really well. One of the critical ingredients is iron-free water from this 'cave spring'. It's very cool here. Here are the other ingredients. And the finished product. So now we're in Huntsville, Alabama, immersed in in-laws. We'll be home next week. Stay tuned.
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