We will take delivery of Memories in St Charles, MO. the middle of March. We will cruise down the Mississippi and up the Ohio and Cumberland rivers to Lake Barkley in Kentucky and Tennessee starting in early May. We will spent May and June seeing Lake Barkley and going up river to Nashville. Then in Septmeber and October we will cruise Kentucky Lake and up the Tennessee river a least as far as Chatanooga and possible all the way to Knoxville. Then we will return to St Charles to put the boat in winter storage.
In the spring of 2009 we will leave St Charles and go up the Illinois river to Chicago, north on Lake Michigan, east through Lake Huron, the North Channel and Gerogian Bay. (If your mental map is lost get out your atlas and follow along.) From Georgian Bay we will enter the Trent Severn Waterway to Lake Ontario, down the Bay of Quinte to Kingston. At Kingston we enter the Rideau Canal which goes to Ottawa where we enter the Ottawa river and go down to Montreal. From there we go down the St Lawrence to Sorel and enter the Chambly canal that takes us to Lake Champlain and back into the USA.
From Lake Champlain we will go south into the Hudson river then turn west at Troy into the Erie canal. If we are still on schedule we will spent a week or two exploring Lakes Cayuga and Seneca (two of the finger lakes that can be reached from the Erie). We will then exit the Erie canal down the Oswego river to Oswego, NY on the shore of Lake Ontario. We will then cross Lake Ontario back to the Trent Severn and return west along the route that brought us east. The plan is to be back in St Charles by late September.In 2010, if we are still talking to each other and have not found other waters to explore we will bring Memories up the Mississippi to Minnesota.
