River Route Knoxville to Chattanooga
Highway Route from Knoxville to Chattanooga
Two paths to the same place.
The highway takes 1.82 hours and about 2.5 gallons of diesel to cover the 111 miles.
The river route takes four days and 72 gallons of diesel to cover 184 miles.
So, as compared to a car, Nellie took 53 times longer while consuming 29 times as much fuel. Hmm, yea, I'm good with that :-) "How could you be?", I hear you asking. Because Nellie's route was 73 miles farther... ;-)
A scant 16 miles today to make it to the Chattanoga Yacht Club. Total for the trip is now 2330 miles. DBH
