Henry’s Last Nite

So John greeted the couple who started from Heritage Marina on the loop and I came back to the boat to help some people who were tying up behind us on the rocks. Now these people on this boat only have 1500 more miles to go to finish the loop and they are strictly solar […]

Henry’s day 2

Well last nite we arrived late so we ate in the restaurant and came back to the boat. Today we are going into town a rather surprizing town for the size. This is what we woke to in the morning. Now I ‘m not sure if these are pelequins or not but there were at […]

Henry’s

Well we arrived at Henry’s and that is not the Henry’s Fish North and South in Georgian bay but on the Illinois River. Just wanted to show you the the barges all lock up and the next picture is how low the water is and how when the water is low the trees fall […]

Heritage Harbour Shopping

The next day several of us did a shopping spree at wallmart to replenish supplied. We used the courtesy van. John and I tried as we might to find course ground coffee to no avail. Apparently we cannot even ground coffee in the stores as they took these out due to the mess it created. […]

Heritage Harbour

We arrived at Heritage Harbour Ottawa, Illinois at 6:04 long day so John had to do a little tugging with me to take me out for supper in the restaurant at Heritage Harbour. By the way this place is beautifully maintained and the people are so friendly and knowledgeable. The marina has a pool, restaurant, […]

Left Joliet

We had the last nite a pre-wake crossing for Jaycee Lynn as they started in Ottawa and that is where we are going tomorrow. We left Joliet with 7 other boats to head down the river. Charlie and Ann walked us through one of the locks and also called ahead to make reservations for our […]

Joliet Things I missed

So the first nite we just tied up had a quick hotdog and went to bed. When we got up in the morning we found that Perfect Day was there but they had some bad news and Lori was flying home and Bill was on his own. We were 5 boats on the wall in […]

Joliet

Well we spent 3 days on the wall in Joliet and it was a lot of fun met several new people and boats. Not a lot of pictures as there was not a lot to do but some of these may bring memories. This is the casino just across the bridge from where we are. […]

Heading to Joliet

Well the river is totally astonishing coming up is the fish crossing. Now we were following a barge and John and I were the only ones on the river so when we came to the sign we did not know that you can only go through the barrier one ship at a time. The barge […]

Chicago River

I will get tired of showing you all the street names but if you can imagine all those street we travel under and all the shops and stores and condo’s along the River it is totally amazing. I truly did not believe that the homeless do live under the bridges. It is a shame when […]