Mississippi to Ohio and on

Okay they have been having difficulty at the Locks on the Ohio they are backed up with tows and barges all along the banks. Here is our first day. Now this crane has balls. Not sure if this is to weigh it down or what. WE are escorted through the lock so we have to […]

Heading to Cairo

Left River Diversion which is close to Scottsville heading for Cairo. Will anchor out again tonite. This is where we are now and in a moment I will show you and look for the boat on the map where we are going and how we can look across the land and see where we were. […]

Kaskaskia River Lock Dam to River Diversion

We all headed out early to get to River Diversion an anchorage that Fern had told us about. John and I are the lollygagers as we can sleep a half hour later than these guys under sail and can only do 6 knots. These are the wing dams Fern is complaining about. And I guess […]

On the river

WE left at 9:30 from Hoppies This was just down the river don’t know what or if just someones mansion. You can see where the railway tracks on on the side of the river below these rocks Now when they have a flood the tracks do get covered and everyone comes out to help put […]

Hoppies continues

WE arrived at Hoppies as you saw where our boat was. And this is some of the pictures I took of the town and the walk into town. Now this house has a wall that was built in the late 1790’s and she is very proud of her house and grounds. This is the Blue […]

Hoppies

On our way to Hoppies we travel through St. Louis so these are pictures from the water. I did not know they had horses and buggies to take you into the downtown core and site see. Just had this photo e-mailed to me and wanted to show you our boat going past the arch, thanks […]

Alton

So for our last day we went shopping drove every road in Alton picked up propane touring and had a great day. Took a tour of the dam we would be going through the next day. Showed us the water level in 1993 flood. I will show more on this later. Had to get this […]

St. Louis

So we finished the arch and now on to The Forest and the Hill. The Hill has over 100 restaurants to choose from Spanish to Italian and we choose We all had the special and although I don’t take pictures I will explain we had a salad, home made avacado soup and manicotti for lunch […]

Alton

Alton is a beautiful stop and when we rented the car it gave us time to visit St. Louis as well. In one day we packed in the following: The Arc, The Hill for fine dinning Italian style,The Forest which contains many museums and everything to much to mention and the Zoo. Here we go […]

Grafton continues

Well the pictures I could not load before are now loading here we go. John took a picture of us at the top and then a few others that he liked. This is heading down the hill from the restaurant. This is the actual restaurant and bar we went to on the hill in […]