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…
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18TH
The fun never stops on a boat. Yesterday just before the arrival of our guest, the forward head (toilet) shall we say acted up. Good news, we had the replacement part. Bad news, it’s a stinky job! Roscoe and LaFoote got it fixed though. I made myself…
I’d say it was a good days work
Made some progress today with a lil’ help from some friends. First section up! This thing is a monster! There’s no way to conceive in your head how big this thing is going to be until you start to put it up!Second section and another WTF have I gotten …
Decompression and Reflections
The past four months have been filled with so many memories of people we have met, places we have seen and activities we have done that sorting out what we would do again and what was most memorable will take some time. To help us on that mental journ…
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17TH
Watching the New York City morning news we were shocked to hear of the severe storms, including two tornadoes that passed through the city last night. Several people were killed from falling trees. If we had stayed at the Liberty Landing where we were …
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16TH
It was a quiet day on the boat. Just caught up on things as we plan to go back into New York City tomorrow.It started to rain early in the evening. Hopefully it will end by morning.
Now I know how Noah felt
The rains have finally let up and I got around to working on the bow shed again. There’s no way one person can put one this big up by themselves so I have to rally some troops tomorrow to lift the first section up. It’ll go up in three sections, 10′, 1…
#24 Catalina Island
Hello from beautiful Catalina Island! The last two weeks have been so full of activity from dawn until dark, there was absolutely no time for me to write. It’s been one first after another, and as you may presume, we have taken delivery of …
The Okeechobee Waterway
Excerpt from the 2011 Southern Edition Waterway Guide : The Okeechobee Waterway is considered by many to be the dividing line between Central Florida and South Florida. When traveling from the north, this is where you will begin to see greater changes …
Rain rain go away!
It seems like it’s been raining here for the past two weeks. Every time I try to work on the shed it rains. *sigh* So to console myself I decided to go shopping! Isn’t that what everybody does? Our new boat now has a Wheel! :-)Hopefully the weather wil…
