Yippee! Today some new Visa cards arrived as promised by B of A and, hopefully, our credit card woes are over unless some wiseguy compromises their top secret data again. Dealing with the wonderful fraud protection folks at B of A has been a nightmare with their dedicated but idiotic employees telling us lies, half-truths, outright fabrications and devious misstatements except for the last person who spoke with Peggy. He actually told us the truth when he stated that he would overnight UPS our cards to our current camping location.
We spent the rest of the day updating our automatic payments through Visa, making reservations for camp spots for our travels in the next month and doing the laundry. We took a very short break to take a spin in Charlotte to purchase diesel and get a look at the Green River ferry. The Green River is the outfall for all the water that runs through Mammoth Cave. The ferry is a simple little rig that will hold 8 tons maximum and crosses the river at a spot about 100 feet wide.
The design of the ferry is unlike any I have seen before. It has a little cab and an engine housing on one side of the tiny car platform and a paddle wheel partially submerged on the other side. There is a lot of splashing from the paddle wheel. To keep the ferry from running downstream, they have rigged a static line across the river and two pulleys with straps to the ferry run on the line. Simple, but effective. The ferry operator puts the ferry in 1st gear to cross the river in one direction and puts it in reverse to go back. There is very little traffic for the ferry so it works here. I might come back here some day and see if I can get the operator job because it looks like he only needs to work about 20 minutes per day and I think I could do that.