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...
Bimini
Welcome to Bimini...Gateway to the Bahamas...although it was our exit. Hemingway was a frequent visitor... he hung out fishing and boxing. This was the motivation for his book, Islands in the Stream. The large game resort, Big Game Club, has closed and once again the town is feeling the crunch. .....that was the destination of most of their visitors.
That pretty much sums that visit up......ya have the local church, no pot
smokin', and then ya get buried......... Actually we enjoyed walking the beach......thousands of
conch shells....a big stable here too. Dinner was nice...our last meal in the
Bahamas.......and the visit to the End of the World Bar never happened.....we were looking so forward to keeping the tradition of hanging our underwear on the walls and also seeing those of the rich and famous mounted there! ha
She still looks good......Sea la Vie has served us well so far....and with every mile and washing........I become more attached...to her and Jerry.......what a way to start married life!
That pretty much sums that visit up......ya have the local church, no pot smokin', and then ya get buried......... Actually we enjoyed walking the beach......thousands of conch shells....a big stable here too. Dinner was nice...our last meal in the Bahamas.......and the visit to the End of the World Bar never happened.....we were looking so forward to keeping the tradition of hanging our underwear on the walls and also seeing those of the rich and famous mounted there! ha
She still looks good......Sea la Vie has served us well so far....and with every mile and washing........I become more attached...to her and Jerry.......what a way to start married life!
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