Neither of us slept very well last night. We weren’t worried about out anchor holding because we had tried to lift it to move to deeper water and it wouldn’t budge. But, we were worried that we were out of the way of all of the barges waiti…
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
What a day! It began at 4:45. We were up and dressed and waiting for the sun to come up enough to see the buoys. Lightning made such a gorgeous light show for us, but made us unsure whether we should stay or leave. One…
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
We had a short cruising day today. We are tied to the lock wall at the Kaskaskia Lock. When we asked Fern at Hoppies where would be good places to stay the rest of the way down the Mississippi River, she told us to stay here tonight and the…
Monday, Sepember 3, 2012
We left bright and early this morning, and cruised the Mississippi River from where it meets the Illinois River to Hoppies. We passed through two locks to get here and there are no more locks until we reach the Ohio River. This is qui…
Sunday. September 2, 2012
We have very poor Internet service here. Last night I was not able to get online at all. So, I am trying again tonight. Yesterday we spent the day working. John washed the boat, There was a lot of fish slime on the sides o…
Friday, August 31, 2012
Yesterday we left Hamm’s Holiday Harbor Marina at 6:15 A.M. It felt good to be on our way again. By 9:00 we were through the Peoria Lock. We were the only boat in the chamber and the drop was only about 4 feet, so the lockmaster told …
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The boat is back in working order. We filled up the fuel tank and we are ready to cruise tomorrow morning. One unusual thing about this harbor is that they do not take credit cards. They did take our out of state check, however. …
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
John got an email from UPS this morning saying that the delivery information was not complete and that he should contact them so they could deliver it tomorrow. It needed a business name. Unfortunately, John did not see this email until one…
Monday, August 27, 2012
The weather is better. It stopped raining, and is in the upper 80s. John ordered the boat part first thing this morning. It’s supposed to be here tomorrow sometime. I spent a good part of the day working on genealogy research.&n…
Sunday, August 26, 2012
It was ugly here in beautiful Chillicothe, Illinois. It began raining this morning and has been raining, off and on, all day. Sometimes with thunder and lightning. It’s not as if we could move our boat anyway. A very nice w…
