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[chairman86]

While I returned home yesterday from a weeks vacation in Tennessee, 10 of us including my dad and Barb went on a 70 foot houseboat on Center Hill Lake and it was awesome. The boat itself had six state rooms 1 1/2 bathrooms a full kitchen living and dining area TV VCR on the main floor with front and rear outside seating areas as well as a second story sundeck and flybridge. The lake is in a sense man-made because under President Roosevelt there were a system of dams built and subsequently a chain of large lakes was created literally in a chain of mountains, the lake is over 40 miles long with two waterfalls and 400 plus miles of shoreline it is anywhere from 1 foot to 200 foot deep and is surrounded by nature occasionally you would see a mansion built into the mountainside but other than that and the occasional passing boat it was very remote and beautiful. We were told that during the peak summer season there are three to four hundred houseboats and other pleasure craft on the lake, and I think that would be pretty busy even for a lake of such substantial size but seeming how we went just after what they considered peak season we only saw literally a handful of other boats. As I mentioned there are huge how peppered along the shoreline we saw country music singer Alan Jackson's home and houseboat as well as Al Gore's houseboat unfortunately neither of them were there. And I have to say I find it pretty funny that Al Gore Mr. global warming has a houseboat they are far from eco-friendly and not gas savers, but they are so much fun. If you can already tell I truly had a wonderful time and if anyone reading this has the opportunity to go on a vacation like this I highly recommend it!

Until later,
Michael