I love riding a winding river road This road has that smell of a river. That Mississippi River smell is unique, it has that muddy river smell. While riding these roads you can feel the river delta in your veins. It gives you a special spirit or spice to your life. After making a wrong turn when leaving Union City we have to drive around Realfoot Lake through Hickman Kentucky to get to Tiptonville. This is the county seat for Lake County. We see the Historical Marker for the Battle for Island #10. A lesser known civil war battle on the Mississippi River.
It's hard to imagine 25,000 soldier slogging it out in and around this area. Riding a motorcycle on elevated roads through flooded fields it becomes clear warfare would have be near impossible on this Mississippi River plain. With the capture of Island #10 the Union gain a little more control of the Mississippi River in 1862. 
After getting some pictures at the Lake County Court House its time to head Dyersburg. The county seat of Dyer County to get another county under our belt, We have 3 to go before we stop for the night, 
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