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...
Good Bye Key West
Well....Key West has proved to be more than we had ever imagined! Views from the roof top gives you some idea how small the island really is.....we rode our bikes around the entire island more than once! My brother and
Jorge joined us for a few days.....we enjoyed their company.
The sunsets were spectacular and different every day....we enjoyed new friends and our neighbors on the dock this last month ..we will miss you ...but until we meet again.......we just need to figure out how to get out of this slip! Two large boats have moved in behind us....it was so close and so very windy.....I was ready for happy hour the minute we were in the channel!
Onward to Marathon!
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