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AGLCA Looper Rendezvous Until we met again

We are on the move again, we left Joe Wheeler State Park after a week long stay for the AGLCA Rendezvous. At the Rendezvous there were a total of 57 boats that came in, all in one stage or another of the loop. Boats of all shapes and sizes with homepor…

OH…. Please let there be heat

People and their petsThis dock is now full lesson #1…….socializing 101OUT with the old…………IN with the new!In my last post I mentioned the fact that we have been without heat in the aft cabin and Jim ordered a unit to be delivered to Joe Whe…

Florence Mississippi to Rogersville Alabama

Friday Oct 20thWe left Grand Harbor on Thursday and traveled to Florance Ms it was a nice short day and the ride was pleasant.  When we left Grand Harbor the marina in Florence was not sure if they would have a slip for us with electric as they we…

Grand Harbor Marina at Pickwick TN or MS?

Today makes 5 days here on Pickwick lake we were to leave here yesterday but decided to have someone from Aqua Yacht come take a look at our AC/heat system in the aft cabin.  Since the temps are suppose to drop for the next few days to the 50’s it…

Gunkholing along the Tenn River

Since leaving Pebble Isle 6 days ago we have been cruising at Turtle speed, travelling on average 7.5 mph and covering as few miles as possible stopping at all anchorages along the way that we can.  This is the first time we have had the opportuni…

1 Year anniversary OnBoard SweetPea

It is almost impossible to believe that it has been a year since we pulled away from our homeport of Westport Ma.  Last year in a 10 day period we had sold our camper our 17’Bass boat and Jim’s beloved Pickup truck.  It was at&…

Kentucky Sugar Bay

 Today we all continued on Kentucky Lake the scenery is beautiful and the weather very nice.  We arrived at our anchorage (Sugar Bay) the shortest travel day so far all of 8 miles from Kentucky Dam Marina.         &nb…

Kentucky Dam Marina and Paducah KY

 We have landed in Kentucky and are at the Kentucky Dam Marina,  we will be here for a few days before heading back out on the River.  The first night here we called Patti’s and they sent a van on out to pick us all up at the marina, the…

Ohio River to Cumberland River

Today will be our last day on the Mississippi River as we move on to the Ohio River a short ways.  We will have traveled 221 miles on the Mississippi and about 58 miles on the Ohio River that will lead us to the Cumberland River of which we will a…

2nd and 3rd day on the Big Muddy

We left hoppies on Tuesday 9-20 and headed back out onto the Big Muddy next stop Kaskaskia Lock  It is very nice for the lock master to allow us all to tie up to this lock as there are NO marinas on the Mississippi River.  We were the 2n…