6 weeks of smoking the tobacco leaves to create snuff or chewing tobacco!
Twins Chase Vehicle on the Loop
It's a courtesy car on the move if you can catch us with it!
what a mess....pulled anchor....and raised a bramble patch..Bassholes strike again!!!!!
a bunch of branches wired together to a rock caught in our anchor...wire cutters please!
They started a burn ban yesterday in LBL due to drought and the leaves falling.
luckily we enjoyed a fire earlier in the week
When they dammed Lake Barkley, they did not cut any of the trees first so you find them at anchor
this was the top of a tree we pulled up in the morning after swinging for two nights!
The water is down for the winter pool
so you can see the bridge and road!
Louisville Slugger Bat
Unscheduled stop in Louisville
Ryder Cup and the Slugger
Finally Some real exercise
We rode the bikes from the anchorage to the boat show....sore legs after the up's and downs, particularly the gravel up to the highway!
Finally some time for fishing....
....looks like fish on the grill tonight!
First Meal out in Paducah
a Pizza from a nice wood fired oven at Max's to celebrate the Loop closing of "Our Turn"
Synopsis of our First Segment from MI to KY
91 Engine Hours
750 Miles
375 Gallons of Diesel
One Lake Crossing - Mishegame
5 States - MI, IN, IL, MO, KY
Main Rivers - Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, Cumberland
a bunch of locks and bridges
one dinged prop
Our first Segment of the Loop is complete at Land Between the Lakes, KY
Our TWINS Trip - First Segment, getting the Boat to Land of the Lakes Area
Grand Haven to St Joe 2 nights in St Joe on the wall, due to weather/waves on Mishegame 2 nights at anchorage in Chicago Harbor…fantastic skyline One night on the wall (AC!) in Joliet ...Chicago bridges and skyscrapers 2 nights ….On the (did I say free) wall at Ottawa One night at Blue Creek point anchorage on shallow Peoria Lake One night at Bar Island with Our Turn, our new river friends 2 nights at Grafton Marina with Hurricane Gustaf’s record rainfall One night at Hoppies….bent our prop in the morning startup One night in Little Diversion Canal after dodging debris in Big Muddy One night at Cumberland Towhead …..relatively calm waters of Ohio
now....2 nights at Green Turtle Bay decompressing Start of Second Segment Anchorage by Barkley Canal having our prop pulled by Billy the Diver
Covered in fish flies from the anchorage
The Gulls went crazy!
Sun's up on Peoria Lake
...leaving the Blue Point Creek Anchorage
Stern Anchor Chain
from the muddy waters by Blue Creek Point
Ottawa FREE wall (from the porch of the Ottawa Boat Club)
end of week one!
Lying along the wall in Chicago Harbor!
north of the Chicago Harbor Light
Lying along the wall at St Joe
End of Day One....day two too!
Leaving Spring Lake under the Grand Haven Bridge
THE Journey Begins
The burgee on the big lake Mishegame...north wind at one knot!
Spring Lake & Punta Gorda, Mishegame or the FL sandbar
Their blog chronicles the journey of Jim and Vaughn aboard their boat TWINS as they travel the Great Loop (aka Great Circle), their multi-year circumnavigation of lakes, rivers, and waterways around the Eastern United States.