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...

Dustin needed a hair cut so he found a place online, made an appointment, and then we took the dinghy about 5 miles up the river to the...

Yesterday we started out the day by watching church on the boat. Our pastor has such good sermons and we are so blessed to be able to...

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....

Tomorrow we traverse our first real leg of the river system and will encounter our first lock and dam!! These are the types of ships we...

Dustin changed the engine oil/filters and water pump impellers on both motors today, in 96* heat I might add. While doing so, he found...

Day 3 at the shipyard in Chicago. We are forced to sit in solitary confinement during the days and work like slaves in exchange for food....

We spent yesterday re-caulking the shower, un-wiring the mast, taking the sails off (and killing about a bazillion spiders that crawled...

And we're off!! Spent a wonderful night in our hometown last night (South Haven, Mi). My family had said goodbye to us a couple of nights...

I'm doing one last sweep through the boat to see what we can get rid of that we don't absolutely need and I realized that Bella has three...

Today is our Last. Day. With. A. Car. We are gaining freedom and losing it all at once...exchanging it for a different kind of...

Finally making the boat ours and took the Cat's Meow off and putting "Trouvaille" on before we leave!! Spent a few hours with a heat gun...

Dustin and I went out to see a Leopard 43' Power Catamaran that had anchored out in Kalamazoo Lake. We drove over and admired the boat...

My awesome sister, Karly, surprised Dustin and I with these super sweet folding electric scooters for the boat!!! These are like the...

This is my friend Otis. He only has 1 foot and sits in the grass most of the day. I found him a few days ago when it was super hot out...

The forecast was calling for 70-80mph winds tonight with baseball sized hail. Thankfully, we missed the brunt of it, got to see some...

Our fridge that we were told worked, has never worked. So yesterday we finally replaced it. It was terrifying watching Dustin cut into...