Day #51 - Joliet, IL
Sunday, September 21st, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Woke to a beautiful morning after a bit of a restless night. Quite a bit of rail and barge traffic moves right through town here and we are right at the bridges. Rocks the boat back and forth with the ...
Day #50 - Joliet, IL
Saturday, September 20th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Had a quiet day here in Joliet. It's a sleepy little, middle American town that just happens to have lots of river, barge and train traffic. Still seeing logs/trees floating by and when Jim went to pull his boat up ...
Day #49 - Joliet, IL
Friday, September 19th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Ahhhh, the day I have been dreading...going down into the river system. As most of my friends and family know, I have been whining about this part of the trip for a year. I consider it going to be somewhat ...
Day #48 - Chicago, IL
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | 1 Comment »Well, our location may finally change tomorrow. Sounds like we may be able to start down into the river system. They are intermittently opening the locks and then when the water rises, they close them again. As if this part of ...
Day #47 - Chicago, IL
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Still in "Sick Bay" and still in Chicago waiting for the rivers to receed. Not much else to report. Everyone is anxious to get going, but don't want to leave too soon if it is not yet safe on the ...
Day #46 - Chicago, IL
Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | 3 Comments »The blog author is in sick bay...hopefully back in action tomorrow.
Day #45 - Chicago, IL
Sunday, September 14th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | 1 Comment »Woke to ANOTHER rainy day. Now we are getting the effects of hurricane Ike which made landfall in Galveston, Texas a couple of days ago. Reading the paper today, it stated that yesterday was a record rainfall for the city ...
Day #44 - Chicago, IL
Saturday, September 13th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Finally the Barkers have arrived. It has rained for 36 hours straight and no end in sight. This isn't even the effects of the hurricane yet. It appears to be a tropical depression from the west. Gary and Peg left ...
Day # 43 - Chicago, IL
Friday, September 12th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | 1 Comment »Woke up to a rainy day in Chicago. It never went below 70 degrees last night and very muggy. We had arranged for a rental car today to run some errands. Andy went to West Marine and bought new foul ...
Day #42 - Chicago, IL
Thursday, September 11th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | 1 Comment »Another great day in the Windy City. We moved the boat from Burnham to DuSable Harbor. Pulled into a slip next to Ed and Linda on "Shore Thing" who we met at the Looper party. Both are city marinas just ...
