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...

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Good Bye New Bern

Great time in New Bern...touring downtown and seeing old friends. New Bern has done a great job with the historic downtown.

Nancy and Lynn as we leave the marina...


Christ Episcopal Church - founded 1719...


Lynn and Nancy with the New Bern bear and flag...

Clock on the street...



City Hall...

My friend Walt Erwin...My former neighbors Charlie and Bobbie Marr...
Paul and Georgia Johnson (sorry about the glare)...My friend Lloyd Griffin (we worked at Camp Sea Gull together-seems like yesterday)...


My brother and sister-in-law (Larry and Zelma)...
Larry and Zelma on the balcony of the Shearton as we left...

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