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September 24, 2010 – October 3, 2010 We followed the Tennessee River to the Yellow Creek where the Tenn-Tom Riverway begins.  We stayed at Grand Harbor Marina who has a courtesy van, enabling Laura and Bill (Monkey Girl) and Heidi and Kelly (…

September20, 2010-September 22, 2010The hot weather is killing us.  There’s no breeze and it’s 95 degrees every day.  We had such beautiful weather in Canada this summer that this heat is hard for us to take!When you leave Green Turtle Bay, y…

September 19, 2010We left Kaskaskia Lock at 8 AM with a goal of Little Diversion River Channel in mind as our next night’s safe haven on the Mississippi River.  After six and a half hours of motoring we found the little channel tucked into a small…

September 13, 2010Our Lady of the Rivers Shrine built after 1950 disastrous flood as gratitude for not flooding Portage des SiouxAfter three restful nights at Grafton Marina, we left Sunday bright and early at 7 AM with Lady in Red, Magoo, Mas Buenos a…

September 1, 2010 – September 11, 2010We left New Buffalo expecting a bumpy ride across Lake Michigan but were pleasantly surprised at the relatively quiet, boring ride to Chicago-we like boring on Lake Michigan! The clouds didn’t help us capture the s…

August 26-August 31, 2010 Thursday to Tuesday Although we enjoyed our stay in Frankfort, we knew it was time to move on south to Pentwater, MI.  The winds were light, the waves 1-2 feet and we had a following sea-it doesn’t get much better than th…

We recently learned that the Newtown Bee published an article about our Loop journey,  We had corresponded with Nancy Crevier so she was very familiar with the trip and us.  We would like to thank her for her beautiful article.  She took…

After careful considerations, we decided to leave the North Channel and head back toward civilization.  We cleared customs at Drummond Island and overnighted in DeTour, Michigan.  The State of Michigan runs a top notch inexpensive marina and …