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Final Post- Stats and a quick review of Canada take 1
I bet everyone thought I forgot about stats!. Didn't forget- just the holidays got in the way....I do hope everyone had a wonderful...
deshtrahan
Jan 22, 202413 min read


Gulf Crossing Complete✅✔️
Hello Everyone from Gulfport. We are soooo close. We Got through our Gulf Crossing with flying colors! After all that rain and stormy...
deshtrahan
Dec 6, 20236 min read


Greetings from a stormy Panama City
We are back in Florida! Still central time, but Florida anyway. Our home state.... Good evening everyone from a rather stormy Panama...
deshtrahan
Dec 2, 20238 min read


Free, Freedom, FreeBird
Check out the twists and turns in this crazy river! The Tombigbee _______________________________________________________________________...
deshtrahan
Nov 20, 202311 min read


Making our way down the rivers - slowly!
That gap is getting smaller….😎 Going back to Iuka- We left the boat there for the weekend and went off to Muscle Shoals/Florence. Prior...
deshtrahan
Nov 14, 20236 min read


It really wasn’t that bad…..
Ok, so it seems maybe I was a little too graphic as to some of our conversations on Mississippi. Yes, we did have a couple of times where...
deshtrahan
Nov 10, 20234 min read


Hello and Goodbye Mississippi River!
Greetings everyone from Green Turtle Bay, Kentucky. I hope Everyone is enjoying your extra hour sleep. I for one am trying very hard to...
deshtrahan
Nov 6, 202310 min read


To lead or not lead? That was the question
Hello everyone and yes we are back on the boat. We have been for about 10 days. There has just been some very long days so hard to...
deshtrahan
Oct 30, 202311 min read


CHICAGO!!
The yellow pins that you see is me starting to add last years trip to this. That turned out to be a “triangle loop”. Eventually I...
deshtrahan
Oct 5, 20236 min read


Off to Chicago and then, take 2
St Josephs was an adorable town. We took the bikes out and explored and it was nice. We had some amazing pizza from a place that was...
deshtrahan
Oct 1, 20233 min read


Almost to Chicago
We are hanging out in St Joseph and Chicago is getting closer….. But first, I realized I didn’t report on the Ironman Competition in...
deshtrahan
Sep 25, 20235 min read


Ludington MI
We are hanging out here in Ludington, which is a very small and quiet town. At first, it reminded me of where I grew up in northern...
deshtrahan
Sep 20, 20232 min read


MAP- we are definitely over the halfway point on this journey and almost halfway down Lake M.
FISHTOWN We made our way from Traverse City to Leland on Thursday the 14th. Leland is a cute town and surrounded by beautiful water. ...
deshtrahan
Sep 16, 20233 min read


It’s Been a minute……
Or 76 days to be exact…. First order of Business, Mike and I have decided that the trawler life just isn't for us and that we are going...
deshtrahan
Sep 12, 202310 min read


We Are back in Civilization!
We’ve made it to MaD’s summer home. Bay Harbor Lake in MIchigan. She will remain here until early September so that Mike and I can get...
deshtrahan
Jul 2, 20237 min read


Our last full day in Canada
As you can tell, we haven’t moved far. Last night we anchored out at Johns Island and I am happy to report that we have left Jurassic...
deshtrahan
Jun 29, 20232 min read


Hello From the North Channel
The last few days have been filled with smoke, storms and more smoke. Not a whole lot has happened…. From Little current we made our...
deshtrahan
Jun 28, 20233 min read


Baie Fine, What can we say?
As you can tell, we haven‘t traveled very far this weekend. Friday, we made our way to Baie Fine and were so excited to be in this...
deshtrahan
Jun 24, 20234 min read


And we are in Killarney
Killarney Mountain Resort and coming into Killarney channel (#5). Wix is a little buggy on the iPad and its a pain to move pictures...
deshtrahan
Jun 23, 20234 min read


It’s Been a few days
Map #1 is our entire journey and Map #2 is the journey through the Trent Severn. Middle pic is the Big Chute in action The bottom three...
deshtrahan
Jun 18, 20236 min read
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