11/6/11 Sunday Down day at Grand Mariner Marina. Highlights of the day; Wal-Mart run (sad!) and watching the Packer’s win!11/7/11 Monday Big day today. In our trips through the area we have never stopped …
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Demopolis to Dog River (Mobile)
11/3/11 Thursday Our hopes to be the only boat leaving Demopolis today were squelched when I looked outside at 6am and saw lights on in 3 other boats! Shortly after one of them made a call to the lock and was told to head on dow…
Tenn-Tom’n It
11/1/11 Tuesday November already? Seems like we were just on the Trent-Severn Canal. That is until you call the Stennis Lock and get a dose of “y’all”. As we left Columbus Marina T. Caldwell came out to wave and pass on a few la…
Turnin South
10/25/11 Tuesday We finally left Florence around 11am after waiting for the fog to burn off. Travelling downstream and taking advantage of the current our thought was to get to an anchorage called Whetstone and spend one last ni…
Awesome!!!
10/20/11 Thursday Today started rather slow after pushing hard the previous day and waking to a cooler than average morning. Neither one of us had much ambition and didn’t get going until around noon. Of course Pam was hungry so…
Pushing on to Chattanooga
10/17/11 Monday After travelling with Tumbleweed the past few days Pam thought I was getting soft on our morning departure times. As we pulled out of the marina at 7:15am she quickly realized Capt Bly was still at the helm. It w…
Travelin with Tumbleweed
10/8/11 Saturday Big day today in Grand Rivers, Kentucky. It’s the Hunters Moon Festival. That means corn dogs, smoked turkey legs, and a parade! In anticipation of the big day Pam and I rented a golf cart to transport…
B-Gravy & the Mrs. Come a Callin
9/30/11 to 10/13/11 Where have we been??On Friday 9/30/11 we travelled all of 8.8 miles from Buzzard Rock to Green Turtle Bay in anticipation of picking up our arriving guests, Kim & LuAnn Kissell. We arrived in time to…
Hangin Out in Lake Barkley
9/25/11 Sunday Today started with my anchor alarm going off. Seems the wind had shifted and we had swung around the anchor causing it to pop out of the bottom. It reset itself but we were now too close to shore for comfort. Time…
St. Charles to Lake Barkley
9/16/11 Friday thru 9/19/11 Monday The past four days have been filled with work and company. On Friday the Cummins mechanic showed up to do a valve adjustment on Tourist and the crew from PCH started waxing and buffing the exte…
