Indiana

We're finally out of Ohio and into Indiana. In Lawrenceburg we passed the Hollywood Casino which has a riverboat with a passenger capacity of 9,000 guests and 4,400 gaming positions, including a World Poker Tour room. The next town was Rising Sun which also has a casino in town. Rising Sun looked like a nice place but also seemed like most other river towns we have come across, so we decided to paddle over to the Kentucky side and check out Rabbit Hash, KY, which was what seemed to be a small community frozen in time along side the river! It's an unincorporated hamlet that has had canine mayors since 1998. We stopped into the general store and met the locals who were extremely friendly and willing to tell us some history of the town. Terrie, the store owner, gave us coffee and showed us some interesting pictures of the horse-drawn ferry that used to cross the river. The horses would simply walk on a treadmill-like belt which powered the ferry. Before leaving, she gave us some shirts of their music festival that they have every year which sounded like it would be a great time. I hope to make it back there to spend some more time talking with everyone and hearing some stories. The river itself is still slow as ever. However, there is finally rain in the forecast! We're hoping we can get some current to give us a push. We should hit our first lock in 95 miles today. There is also a huge music festival in Louisville this weekend but it doesn't seem as though we're going to make it in time. Bring on the rain!