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...

Monday, September 7, 2009

Labor Day

After being on the boat for 10 months and doing The Loop....there is nothing like coming home to family.....Jerry's grandchildren Rebecca and Brett came (with parents) for the Labor Day weekend.....We enjoyed a night on the boat.....they loved it but Magi did not sleep much with two kids in the v-berth. Next day was game day......we had four tickets....so father, daughter and kids went to the game while I napped and listened to the game on the boat. My grand kids joined us on Sunday for an afternoon of water sports before going to Booms Day....they love it and enjoy playing with each other.........................Kinsey (9) and Rebecca (6)....those two are really girly girls.......But they can keep up with the boys pretty good!Rebecca and I mop the decks before the game...........................Brett and Rebecca enjoying the hot tub..........Hang on .........we're comin'........................Waiting for the fireworks can take a lot of patience...so we entertained ourselves...............as we watched the crowd, ate and explored the boat. My two grandchildren had never been to see the fireworks before.......................Brett and Turner played several games of cards..............what fun..........especially after the energy drinks they gulped down at Booms Day........................ The Vol Navy is a happening in itself....hundreds of boats rafted together using the game as an excuse to party....
Docked really close was Albert Haynesworth's new yacht.....a real beauty.....
This weekend we had 100,000 of our friends dressed in their finest orange around for a little football....As they say...."It's football time in Tenessseeeeeeeeee!"....did I drag that out enough?

Look at this fan (Brett)..................what more could you ask for......GO VOLS!!!! Here we are..........energy drinks and all! We had a few wired kids on our hands!.....Even the chicken wondered what in the world we were thinking....................We had to do the Booms Day Walk and get the T-shirts!
Wake boarding never looked so easy.........................yeah right!
The crowd just kept growing...........................(400,000?)
Finally the BOOM arrives.....

Our favorite the waterfall off the bridge....................the kids loved it......big and little kids alike.....
What a show...............................

The end of a long day.......a great Labor Day weekend with family and friends....and the end of a great 10 month adventure....not about the places we went but the people we met.

Thank you for joining us on our Great Loop adventure.... Lots of love ........We are so very blessed! Our last blog posting....until we sail again..... Lynn & Jerry......Sea La Vie.......
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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Here's to Sam

My friend Sam Thompson was diagnosed in May with cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer). He died 8/31/09. I was honored to get to see him when we returned to Knoxville. We had talked several time during the trip, hoping he could join us along the way. Sam was full of life and lived it as if everyday could be his last. This is one of the reasons Lynn and I chose to do the trip at this time in our life. Here's to you, Sam...
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