Life On the Mississippi: Riverboats 1

You can take a ride up and down the Mississippi on the riverboats Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher (see yesterday's post). Becky was not a distant relative of Margaret but rather Tom's erstwhile girlfriend. There are dinner cruises on the boats. Our office did that for the December holiday party last year. What a flop. There's nothing to see along the river in the dark once you leave downtown except the odd chemical factory. The food was as drab as the night. As I heard someone say recently, I'd rather buy sushi from a vending machine. Still, docking back under the floodlit Arch late at night was a thrill.

TOMORROW: another, much bigger riverboat