Burntside Adventures: Heading back downstream

We turned around at Chattanooga. We toured the aquarium there, ate out a couple of times findding ggod food and beer, then decided time didn't allow us to go all the way to Knoxville. It would be another 3 days upstream and the same back, so at least a week round trip and we really want to be near Mobile by November 1. The river is really getting pretty with the leaves changing. We have had some beautiful anchorages in secluded bays, pretty much all alone. We stopped at Guntersville at the city dock there, no amenities, no power or water, but just a great spot. I rode my bike up to the NAPA store and picked up the oil filters I needed for the engine and generator, then spent then morning yesterday changing the main engine oil and the transmission oil. All went well. In the afternoon, people walked by the boat while we were working on chores and had lots of nice comments about the boat. One of the people w spoke to was a young man working for the local paper. His boss had seen the boat at the dock and asked him to come down and interview us for the paper. Nice young man. He took our picture and promised to get us the copy he was going to write. Made us feel like Pamelot from the Echo had caught us. Cindy found the Goodwill there and a lot of treasures for her store. She got a good run in and I got lots of biking in getting the filters and hauling the spent oil from the oil changes, in a Duluth pack to a repair shop that had a big tank for used oil. The dock there was right next to a busy road, lots of trucks and noise, so after having happy hour and wings late afternoon, we pulled out and moved downriver 8 miles to a bay that was quiet. We'll sit here today, and then put in a little longer day tomorrow going downriver. I've ordered a bunch of stuff from Amazon to be delivered to Florence where we stayed 3 weeks ago, so we'll stop there again at the end of the week.