Looper Rendezous and down the Tenneessee

 Here we were at The AGLCA week.  Tom is in the picture,
I picked up a cold and was sleeping in the boat as this was
taken.  This conference hosts those people planning on doing
the loop those that have done it and us that are in progress.
We met some incredible people- even a presenter (Robert Creech), that stays in touch
with our boats previous owners Linda & Charlie Thomas. 
We got to tour other boats and we hosted ours for
those planning to do the loop could ask questions.  Most of the guys were impressed
with the tool box that Tom costumed built to fit in our boat.  Lots of pictures taken of that.   

Just in time for Halloween we had spooky fog!! Or as I said made
me hungry for Pea soup.

We left Joe Wheeler and went to our first lock with 18 other
looper's so we rafted up and went through the Wheeler Lock.

Small world- this couple is from Rogers City, MI.  I lived there
for one year when I was 14.  He was a dentist Dr. Taylor and his
wife Chris that are doing the loop in their sailboat.

 

This boat was built from scratch by Curt Gard from Colfax, Iowa.  The funny
part of this story is that he kept it from his wife for 2 years.  They are now
happily going on the loop.  Boat is called Curt's Dream.