The Gen. Jackson, a river excursion boat based in Nashville, has been docked at Beale Street Landing since March 1, and it's likely to remain there for at least another week. Why? Well, to get back to Nashville the vessel must travel up the Mississippi to the mouth of the Ohio River, cruise up the Ohio to the mouth of the Cumberland River, and go a-lumberin' up the Cumberland to the self-proclaimed "Music City." And apparently there's a bridge on the Ohio leg of the route that the boat can't fit under during this current high-water period. So the boat and her crew are hanging out in Memphis until the water drops.
To be honest, there's something about this whole scenario that makes me smile. I mean, this seems like a nineteenth-century sort of problem, and yet here we are in 2018 and a boat still has to cool its heels for many days because of one bridge hundreds of miles upriver.
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