North Star on the Great Loop Journey: Christmas

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.

Monday, December 26, 2011

Christmas

Hope everyone had a nice Christmas.

We had a really nice Floridian Christmas with our friends Bruce and Anne. The weather was really hot so we were glad to be staying in the trailer park close to a pool. Our friend Randy joined the four of us for the pot luchn Christmas dinner so it was really nice to be with friends. There was so much food and of course I over did it. We decided to skip dinner last night because we were all stuffed.

Anne and I joined in the Golf Cart parade on Christmas eve. What a good idea, they decorate their carts and drive through the whole park playing Christmas music and making lots of noise. We were able to see all the trailers in their festive decorations.

We are back at Bonita Bills and looking forward to New Years Eve with my daughter Emma.