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We expect to arrive at Joe Wheeler around 3:30…getting a great push from the current so we are zipping along at 9 to 10 mph instead of our usual 7-8. Then the fun (craziness) begins. Floyd’s high school buddy, Larry and his wife, Cindy, are driving d…

Saturday is our travel day…and just like the rest of the week, it dawned and then grew foggy…foggier…foggiest. We watched boats leave and then return…yep, getting out of the marina in the smokey stuff is one thing. Getting under the bridge on t…

And what a party it was! Two other looper boats came in that afternoon, so Dianne had everyone over. It was fun comparing events and boat stories…getting reacquainted with Eldon and Dianne..we’ll see them all again at Joe Wheeler.

Laundry at Ditto Landing leaves a lot to be desired. We are across the bay so it means a dinghy ride to haul laundry…then the facility (if you can call it that) is a good hike uphill by the RV park. One washer and one dryer shared with the marina and…

Thursday was colder and drizzly…we were in a cleaning mode zone of some sort. We know that while we are at the AGLCA Rendezvous they will have a boat crawl, asking boaters to volunteer to open up so others can tour the looper boats. Floyd and I learn…

Still no activity on MAINE VISIONS, but late that afternoon BOREAS appeared. They’d been way up the Tennessee River and were returning to attend the Looper Rendezvous at Joe Wheeler next week. We dinghyed over and had a nice chat with Fred and Julaine…

Not much going on today (Wednesday, Oct 19th), so when we returned from the store, I whipped up a pot of chili and convinced Floyd that it was probably time for another of his famous Key Lime pies…yyyuuuummmy.

We donned our rain gear, preparing to dock at Ditto Landing in the drizzle. As luck would have it, just as we rounded the corner, the sun came out and the rain stopped. We docked, fussed with the lines, marina guy installed a new electric meter and out…

The sky threatened rain…and then did. The scenery changed back to the pretty cliffs and colorful trees we like. Just an hour out of Huntsville, and we are once again liking what we see and hoping that the rain will stop before we have to dock at Dit…

What is it about Railroad bridge tenders??? We’d still be sitting in Chicago, if not for the barge that happened by …and now this one in Decatur is just as bad. Even the tow captain couldn’t help. We called on channel 13, then 16, no response. A Tow …