Waynesburg to Evansville

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Today's leg was all about visibility. We like 5 miles or more, and the weather people were predicting between 3 and 5, but saying it would improve after 9 AM. So we sat and waited at the Waynesburg airport until visibility got good enough.

At 10 AM local visibility was more than 7, so we took off and started making our way west. Ten minutes out we encountered haze and mist and decided that the weather was not clearing up as fast as we would like. So we turned back, landed at Waynesburg again and waited.

We took off again at 11 AM to much better conditions. This time visibility was 5 or more all the way and we were on our way. There was, however, a change of plans. Originally we were planning to go to Evansville nonstop, but the aborted first attempt ate into our fuel reserves and we decided we'd stop at Frankfort, KY to refuel. This is what I look like after refueling in Kentucky:


Apparently, to go anywhere in this region you follow the Ohio River. We met it soon after taking off and it crossed our path multiple times during this trip. Each time it crossed our path we entered another state: West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio or Indiana. This happened so many times we lost count. The Ohio River, by the way, looks like this:


The river is not only navigable, it is still a major transportation artery. There were barges everywhere, carrying goods both up and downstream. The barges looked like this:


Thanks to the time change from EDT to CDT we gained an hour and arrived in Evansville early enough to go exploring. Of course, we ended up on the River Walk which borders the Ohio River (now, I bet you didn't expect that). From the ground, the river looks like this:

They had a cool monument to all 50 states. This is what Sharon and I look standing by the symbols for our states:




















And now we are back at the hotel, resting and getting ready for tomorrow's leg to Oklahoma City.