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After a several-week “land break” during which Sojourner rested, Carolyn had cataract surgery, we both visited with friends in Lexington, family in Woodridge, IL, and Susan visited family in CA, we all reassembled to begin the 600+ mile trip down the lower inland waterway to Mobile AL, the Gulf of Mexico, and warmth in the […]

After a one-day layover for some routine maintenance and repairs, Sojourner headed down the Mississippi River, and with the departure from Port Charles Harbor, we began to retrace our inaugural adventure four years and some 17,000 miles ago. Back then, with Patti and Carol of Sea Sense aboard as our training captains, we were “baptized” […]

After our Lake Michigan adventure, we spent some time at the Hammond (IN) Marina.  That’s the place best known to cruisers as the stop where the transient docks are closer to the Casino than to the marina office! But the casino had no $5.00 Blackjack tables (remember, Carolyn bets only $20.00), so we spent even […]

Cruisers often describe the trip from the Straits of Mackinac to Chicago as “running down Lake Michigan”.  Perhaps that is because Lake Michigan, the sixth largest fresh water lake in the world, the third largest Great Lake and the only one completely within the US, is long (over 300 miles from north to south), as well as […]

Sojourner completes the Great Loop!! We realize we have yet to post about cruising Lake Michigan or our more recent adventures on the Illinois Waterway… and we will!! But the BIG news at the moment is that at approximately 5:00 pm yesterday afternoon (Thursday, August 23rd) , Sojourner pulled into Port Charles Harbor Marina, at […]

From Drummond Island, we meandered though the islands at the southwest end of Manitoulin Island toward Lake Michigan, though our entry into that massive, inland ocean was not to be for several days.  On our way to Mackinaw City, we passed by the famed Mackinac Island and were passed by several Mackinac Island ferries!! It […]

Like “Georgian Bay”, we’ve oversimplified mentions of “The North Channel”.  It is much more than one end of Georgian Bay; rather, the North Channel (NC) is a distinct body of water in its own right, one that happens to connect with the Small Craft Channel on the northeastern shore of Georgian Bay. But it also […]

In earlier posts we indicated that Georgian Bay (GB) is “at the east end of Lake Huron.”  That’s a quick, but less than accurate, description of GB’s location, and it communicates nothing about this amazing body of water!   Actually, the rather large protuberance off the northeast sector of Lake Huron is GB, and it is […]

Again, it has been awhile since we posted… Internet access has become more and more sporadic the farther west we travel, and sometimes we can “do email” but don’t have the bandwidth to post or upload pictures. We are now in Little Current, a delightful town along Georgian Bay, marking the end of the Small […]

It’s been awhile since we’ve posted, and we have adventures to share, but in this quick post, we want assure everyone we made it through the Kirkfield Lock just fine-  In fact, it was slightly anticlimactic after all the hype and discussion AND the challenges of the waterways both before and after our ride in […]