Leaving Chicago

Now the easy part going into the Chicago Harbour to start our trek on the Chicago River and what a site to run through the centre of Chicago.  I have lots of pictures and the name of all the street we went under this is fun. As you can see this is the harbour entering […]

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West Marine

Okay so we got early and John has been choppin at the bit ever since he lost his radar.  So todays challenge is to  get a new radar system and AIS.  John got both at West Marine.  Now to get there we called a cab and they never came so a gentleman driving for Ubber […]

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Chicago Trolley

Marshall and Corine came over to our marina late on Saturday so now we have 3 Canadian Boats all on dock G at Burnham Harbour. We took the trolley ride about 2 in the afternoon all 3 couples.  Here is a picture of the trolley ride and I have written on it all the spots […]

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Chicago

The following day we went to the Aquarium and toured this now this is really nice but it took us 5 hours to complete.  This was well worth the tour.   The Boluga Whale was a favourite.  This is similar to the auquarium in Toronto but a little bigger. Now here the penquins had a […]

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Chicago Museum

Well we walked to the Field Museum in the morning and toured I will let the pictures speak for themselves the main attraction was Sue the Teranasorus Rex not the correct spelling. I did not know there really was a DODO Bird that is extinct. Did not know that walrus actually have almost like fingers […]

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Leaving Michigan City

Left at 10:30 heading for Chicago.  About halfway we left Indiana state and crossed into Illinois on our way to Chicago.  About 10 miles out we took this picture as I did not do a lot of picture taking while traveling we were getting the waves partially on the side so a lot of rock […]

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Michigan City

WE are at the Washington Port Authority Marina.  We are doing some more touring.  John and I went tot he grocery store with one other gentleman as the marina gave us a courtesy car to go shopping.  We got back and then walked with Casey and Kerry to the Marine store. Finally got a picture […]

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Left St Joseph’s

We left St. Joseph’s and are heading to Michigan City.  remember there is now a time difference of one hour so we get an extra hour to stay up.  HAHA Walked around town and everyone is so friendly here we even got a ride from someone at the marina to the mall.  Now these malls […]

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St. Josephs

We stayed in St. Josephs for 3 days.  Visited the down town core.  Went to Wolf Marine John wanted to stay the store is amazing and he bought a lot of good stuff for us to put on the boat.  More on that later. Spotted this little house on one of our walks. Now John […]

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