Visiting Chattanooga, TN on a side trip while doing America's Great Loop by boat is an absolute MUST!

After 3 long days of travel, 4 locks, 2 nights at anchor and about 250 miles with 95 degree weather and no AC, we finally reached Green...

We got up around 4:45am the day that we left Alton, IL. We wanted to get an early start because our next leg of the trip was about 250...

After our time in Peoria, we were up with the sun to travel to Grafton, IL where the Illinois River converges with the Mississippi River!...

The past two days have been both exhausting and exciting all at the same time. What we thought would be a few short hours of boating...

Yesterday we went though the Lockport Lock in Illinois. Since our first lock was so easy, we didn't expect this one to be any different....