It's a new cruising season!

We'll start out on October 7th, leaving our home port Harbobrside Marina in Wilmington, IL and go cruising on the Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee Rivers (and maybe the Cumberland) for the Fall 2008 season. When we did the America's Great Loop Route cruise, we really enjoyed the beautiful scenery amd Fall colors on the Tennessee River, but we left the Tennessee when it turned East and we continued South on the Ten-Tom canal and Tombigbee River to Mobile, AL.

This year, we'll follow the Tennessee East all the way to Chattanooga. We plan to stay in Chattanooga until it starts to get too cold (maybe the first week of December?) and then go back to the Ten-Tom and South to Florida or the Texas Coast. We'll come back up in March or April and leave our boat in Columbus, MS for the summer. Our plan is to bring our car with us this time by getting a one day rental car to go get it, wherever we left it at the last few marinas.

My blog may not be as detailed or picture storybook style as the Great Loop since it's really designed mostly to keep our friends and family posted on where we are and what we're doing. Same boat, same crew, different fun!