Beautiful day today

We are at mile #888. We made 70 miles today. It was a little chilly, but other than that it was a truly beautiful day. It put some of my concerns about the Mississippi to rest. Most all of the wing dikes are about four feet out of the water. The river is really low right now. Even if they were under water, the are pretty well marked. We have paper charts and a chart plotter, so navigation has been pretty easy so far. As far as barges go, we meet 13 of them today in the 70 miles we traveled, and none came up behind us to pass. So far that's not any worse than the Ohio river, but I imagine that will pick up the further south we get. We motored most of the day. We did get in two hours of sailing without the motor at the end of the day. It was pure joy to turn it off, and sail at 6.5 to 8.4 mph under sail alone. Hoping for some more of that tomorrow. The interent is too slow to upload pics, so I will add them when we get closer to civilazation.