What a wonderful time we've had these past few days! It was bittersweet, parting with some of our new Looper friends last night and today. This morning, around 8:00 twenty boats left the marina and coordinated our transportation through the two locks. Scheduled by our fearless leader Roger Packham from "TaTa", our lockage through both locks was flawless. Both locks were expecting us and we had very short delays on locking through. Roger had "assigned" lock location for each of the twenty boats and, except for a small problem with high wind at the Wilson Lock and a few "self-reassignments" in the locking order, his plan worked flawlessly. Thank you, Roger, for your hard work!!
Several of the boats we are traveling with stopped at Florence, AL and the rest of us are traveling further along the river, anxious to reach the Tenn-Tom. We will be anchoring tonight at Union Hollow with "Blue Willow", fellow Michiganders Mark & Vicki Hill.
The weather is perfect today...78 degrees, sunny, but a little breezy. While we have had a good time over the past few days, we are excited to be back on the water.
Luck was sitting on my shoulder these past few days and as a result, I won a free month of dockage at two marinas along our route. One of them happens to be the marina at which we were planning to leave the boat while home for Thanksgiving, so this is an extra bonus! Although we won't be in those places long enough to take advantage of 2 months of dockage, the time we spend at each of these places will be cost-free and an extra boost to our pocketbook. Thank you, Marker 1 Marina in Dunedin, FL and The Wharf Marina in Orange Beach, AL!!!!
We will plan to post pictures to the blog when we have better internet connection. Please enjoy your weekend!!
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