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...

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Oswago, NY

On our way to Oswago via the Erie Canal.......more locks........
Getting closer as we leave the Erie Canal and start the Oswago Canal .......

Along the way....many nice water fronts with docks along the wall. Wish we had more of this in Tennessee!!! Really pretty and nice for the residents of the small towns.




This lock had a bridge to open in addition to the lock doors.......just get us thru all these.............

Water falls along the way...reminded me of the smoky mountains and all the flowing bubbling streams we have there.



The nice thing about Loopers is that we keep seeing each other along the way....Rick and Betsy on "Rick and Roll " are staying at the marina near by...........
This new approach to fishing seems to work for him........yuck....


Brian and Jan joined us for dinner...........always nice to break bread with fellow Loopers .......It is so interesting how you make new friends and somehow feel like you have known them a lifetime. That is the feeling I had with Jan......Just an easy going soul.....great fun we had with you.


Our favorite thing.....eating.....what a great salad Jan makes......not to mention the cake....oh my goodness.....Who thought we would maybe loose weight on this trip......

Leaving Oswago and heading out on Lake Ontario.......nice day....and as usual I have the mop in hand..................
Tell me this boat could possible get clean and stay that way............NOT
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