The Great Loop

This web site is an attempt to provide a quick and easy way for our family and freinds to keep up with us on "The Loop"

The Great Loop is a 6000 mile jouney down the Tennessee River and the Tombigbee Waterway to Mobile, Alabama. From there around the coast of Florida via Key West with a side trip to the Bahamas. Back to the coast of Florida we head up the east coast to the Chesapeake Bay. From the Chesapeake we continue up the east coast through New York Harbour, up the Hudon River, and across the Erie Canal. Through a series of canals we go across Lake Ontario into Canada. We will spend a month in Canada. Back to the US, we will cross Lake Michigan to Chicago. Following the Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, and Cumberland Rivers back to Tennesse.


LOOP CLOSED: 8/12/09: 310 days, 6170 miles, 107 locks, 3 countries, 16 states, 85 different marinas, 10,050 gallons of diesel fuel, thousands of photos, countless new friends, and priceless memories...

Friday, July 17, 2009

Drummond Island

So after leaving the Benjamins and our anchoring out experience.....we were really blessed with this smooth as silk water all the way to Drummond Island...so here we go, about 60 miles wide open water..............

I snuggled up with a pillow and blanket up next to the captain....as we just auto-pilot our way thru the waters...............


Can you tell not much to do and how may pictures do you need of our wake???




So hello United States..........we are so excited.....to just be back in the states.....Internet and phone at last......
First getting thru customs....A nice customs officer came aboard and just asked a few questions, got a few numbers and looked at a few papers....looks easy enough to me....of course I am not the one preparing for all of this......Good job Captain Jerry.

Time for our favorite thing....filling the tanks with diesel....price here was $2.99 per gallon,
but we just needed 400 gallons today..............
Well today was just a catch up day....laundry....and even had the opportunity to use the courtesy car.....bought a few groceries......and tried to keep warm and dry.................where is the summer????
We did not have Internet or phone service here.....so we were cut off from the rest of the world....I could not believe that the world did not stop or something.....it was just awful.......but you could hear a pin drop..........quiet...........and the fenders on the boat whined all night.......as I went from the sofa .....to the bed....to the sofa....to the bed.....
And Jerry wonders how I can take a nap so easily when we are running???? Hello?

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