Day #61 - Beardstown, IL
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Left Peoria, IL this morning at 7:30 with three other boats. Thought we were only going to make it to Bath Chute but the day was beautiful, the conditions perfect and decided to come all of the way to Beardstown, ...
Day #60 - Peoria, IL
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Woke this morning to rain. After the Captain's meeting it was decided to spend another day here as the river still hadn't opened. Decided to do things that we had been putting off. Andy (MacGyver as the kids call him) ...
Day #59 - Peoria, IL
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »A couple of pictures taken from Foreign Exchange thought everyone might enjoy. Shows how thick the fog was yesterday when we left Ottawa and the happy couple locking through. Spent another day at the IVY Club waiting for the river to ...
Day #58 - Peoria, IL
Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Day #58 and we have gone about 1,000 miles. Feel like we are making a little progress again. Six boats left Ottawa this morning at 6:30 and left in fog. Always a little scary but it cleared quickly. Seems like things were ...
Day #57 - Ottawa, IL
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »The good news for "Good News" today is that they opened up another section of the Illinois River. We are currently at MM 242 and it is now open to MM 108 and then again after MM 50. That means ...
Day #56 - Ottawa, IL
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Well, good to know someone is keeping tabs on us. Peggy called this morning and noticed that we hadn't made an entry yesterday. Oops, maybe I should make something up. Not much to report on our first full day in ...
Day #55 - Ottawa, IL
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | 1 Comment »Left the comfort of the Joliet wall on this bright, sunny morning at 8:30 am. Kismet left with us. It was a long day as we locked through the first lock quickly and then waited two hours to lock through the ...
Day #54 - Joliet, IL
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Yep, still in Joliet. At least the weather is amazing with sunny skies and highs in the 80s. Can't complain about that. Spent the better part of the day going to the walk-in clinic here in Will County. Back on the ...
Day #53 - Joliet, IL
Monday, September 22nd, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Decided that today was the day that we would venture out and ride the bus to the local Menard's. It is like Home Depot, from which I think Andy has had withdrawals. Found the correct bus stop in town and ...
Day #52 - Joliet, IL
Sunday, September 21st, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »September 21, 2008, the first official day of Fall. Wow, where did the summer go? and what a great one it was. Guess we will try and make it last a bit longer as the forecast here today is sunny ...
