After a week spent in serenity in our idyllic anchorage at Peck Lake, we moved back to Manatee Pocket in Stuart for the weekend so that...

This past week has been lovely! We've FINALLY been getting small glimpses here and there of the Florida we know and love.  We've spent...

After a lovely week anchored near Hole in the Wall Island just north of Vero Beach, we left feeling rejuvenated and happy to be back on...

2025 started off with a bang and I spent the first week and a half of it hunkered down with a bad cold. Thankfully, that is finally...

Being in Savannah for Thanksgiving gave us a glimpse into another side of the city that we hadn’t previously experienced.  Last time we...

Dustin had to travel to Chicago for a work conference last week so over the past 7 days, Bella and I have been manning the boat by...

I think when most people hear that we live on a boat and travel full time, they have this image in their head of us sipping Mai Tais and...

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...

We had originally planned on staying in Grafton for 2 weeks, but decided to switch our plans up a bit and leave earlier so that we would...

On our first day in Grafton, we got up and took the scooters out to explore the town a bit. There is a nice bike path along the river in...

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!...

After traveling about 70 miles from Starved Rock Marina, we arrived at our new marina, the Illinois Valley Yacht and Canoe Club (IVY for...

Asian Carp are an issue in the river systems so in an effort to keep them out, Illinois has built an aquatic barrier that is basically an...

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....