Preparing for the trip

Captain Jerry has been making the final preparations to North Star, our 32 foot Cape Island down east trawler. We are anxious to leave our landlubber lives behind and begin our long awaited journey around the Great Circle. Join us as we travel 10, 000 kilometers: through the historic Trent Severn Waterway; the pristine waters of Georgian Bay; the North Channel of lake Huron; and hop from beach to beach on lake Michigan. We will visit Chicago and begin our trek along the rivers: Illinois; upper Mississippi; Ohio; Cumberland: Tennessee; Tenn-Tom Waterway and the Black Warrior. We will have transited through 68 locks at this juncture. We have chosen the inner route from Mobile Alabama to Tarpon Springs Florida and the shorter Ocheechobee Waterway to reach the East coast of Florida. We will skip over to the Bahamas to wait out the winter before heading North on the Atlantic Inter Coastal Waterway.
The 10 years of researching and planning are finally at an end and we invite you to come along on our adventure.























Saturday, September 3, 2011

Melting in Joliet

The temperature was 99 degrees yesterday with the humidity it definitely felt hotter than that. We are supposed to get thunderstorms today and then the temperature will return to the high 70s and low 80s. We are not going to struggle with locks today so we will stay here one more day.
We rode our bikes to Wall Mart about 5 miles up the hill to find air conditioning yesterday. On the way back we found a bar and stayed there for a few hours to beat the heat, that is my story and I am sticking to it.
We will finish provisioning today and try to beat the heat again, life is tough.
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