Day 1 & 2, 2014…

Well we have begun the next leg of our boating adventure. We got underway about 1100 Sunday from Manhattan Harbour headed SW toward Florence Indiana. A pretty short 63 mile day. It was a bit overcast and cool but the crew seemed to make the most of it.

Speaking of the crew, Jill and I have Vickie and Brian on board for their honeymoon cruise and Dan as an extra deckhand until he decides to jump ship. We’re hoping he decides to stay…what difference is 2 days when you’re retired!

We passed the Belle of Cincinnati above Warsaw, KY as she was assisting another paddle wheel down river, pretty interesting. Seems there is a big riverboat festival in Louisville that we're going to miss by a day or two.

We awoke this morning to rain and thunder but it let up enough for us to get underway by about 0800. It was a short trip to our first lock which was open and waiting for us. In and out in less than 30 minutes to resume the trip to Louisville for the night. A bit above Madison IN we passed an interesting river camp…you never know what you’ll find along the waterways.

Speaking of Madison we passed under the new bridge you may remember being under construction last year.

Well, that’s about it for now. We are a few hours out of Louisville and Margarita Monday…Woo Woop!!

Most likely no blog tomorrow, it’s going to be a long 120 run and we hope to get in before dark.