FRIDAY SKY - GOLDEN EAGLE FERRY

It was a beautiful sunny day when we took the Golden Eagle Ferry crossing the Mighty Mississippi River.

Plato (was it Aristotle or Heraclitus?) was wrong about a person could not step into the same water twice. We might have crossed the same water when we took the Grafton Ferry and then again with the Golden Eagle Ferry!

Here is what Mark Twain wrote in his book, Life on the Mississippi, "The man they called Ed said the muddy Mississippi water was wholesomer to drink than the clear water of the Ohio; he said if you let a pint of this yaller Mississippi water settle, you would have about a half to three- quarters of an inch of mud in the bottom, according to the stage of the river, and then it warn't no better than Ohio water - what you wanted to do was to keep it stirred up - and when the river was low, keep mud on hand to put in and thicken the water up the way it ought to be."

Tom Sawyer said about Mississippi River that, "It is good for steamboating, and good to drink; but it is worthless for all other purposes, except baptizing." We did not attempt to test the water. We were not thirsty and we were already baptized!