Day: 453 Miles Today: 110 Locks Today: 00 Total Miles: 5246 Total Locks: 143
Yesterday afternoon while at Hoppie’s Marina, it was suggested by Fern that we visit the town restaurant for dinner. Then we found out that the restaurant closed at 5:00 p.m.
So at 4:00 p.m. Gary, Maggie and I hiked it a quarter of a […]
Sunday —- Hoppie’s to Diversion Cut
Leland/Frankfort
Leland/FrankfortSeptember 10We woke up to blue skies, sunshine and a flat lake. What a nice change! We left the Charlevoix marina in time to make it through the 7:30 a.m. bridge, and it was a picture-perfect day. Our original plans were to cruise to Le…
Leland/Frankfort
Leland/FrankfortSeptember 10We woke up to blue skies, sunshine and a flat lake. What a nice change! We left the Charlevoix marina in time to make it through the 7:30 a.m. bridge, and it was a picture-perfect day. Our original plans were to cruise to Le…
Engine room deckplates
I’d been keeping an eye out for some aluminum diamond plate material to make deck plates for the engine room for a while. Most of what I had found was either very expensive, or too lightweight to use for decking without some major re-enforcement. I men…
Chicago and the Illinois River Waterway
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…
Tennessee River
Now we have entered a new state for us Tennessee and the terrain is changing as you can see by the high cliffs. This is all new territory for Marilyn as she did not do this section of the trip in 1999.We thought the barges would be smaller&n…
Hard on the Hard
September 11, 2010Chaguaramas, TrinidadJust a year ago, we were announcing that DOMINO would fly the US flag. We were still on the hard under the shed at Mariano Roque Alonso, 3 months away from launch. And we’re on the hard again, in Tri…
Saturday —- Mississippi River, Alton IL to Hoppie’s
Day: 452 Miles Today: 44 Locks Today: 02 Total Miles: 5136 Total Locks: 143
We left at sunrise for our start down the Mississippi. This is where the trip starts to get dicey. We were traveling fast again and at one point we reached 13.7 mph for a few minutes. I think that may be a speed […]
September 5 – 8, 2010
There is Always One Idiot – Red Flags are Out Because of the Under TowBike Trails on the Ocean – Well UsedThis is Called Sea Legs – It is Made in New Zealand and is Worth $100,000Bikes at ProvincetownBeach at ProvincetownDowntown ProvincetownFalmouth, …
(Western) Samoa
Western Samoa is no more. Its name was changed to simply Samoa in 1997. However, in an effort to differentiate it from its neighbor to the East, American Samoa, we continue to refer to it as Western Samoa as many others do. Samoa is between longitu…
