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The Great Loop - Inland Waterways of America

11/13/2015

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While we are marina bound in Belgium I said I'd post pictures on our trip around the Great Loop in America. If you want to see where The Loop took us click here. Our journey took us over 5,000 miles and through twenty-four different states.

It was an amazing year of my life.
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Okay, this was a few years ago - I've eaten a lot more mussels since then! However, life on board was simple, easy and budget-run. So harvesting our own food was a great opportunity!
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The other end of the work-scale, boats need constant maintenance. This is me, not catching aliens but rubbing back a coating of poisonous anti-foul. Each day the lads in the yard would come up to me, laugh, and say 'you still rubbing that boat Miss Jackie' - we were in Alabama!
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Noel helped too of course. We are about to paint Mariah's bottom blue, and we found a few spots of water on top of the paint. This happened before and I came up with the smart idea of using a tampon (women's sanitary product) to soak up the water, while leaving the pain intact!
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Of course there is the money side of work - I had to keep earning by writing articles. The flat waterways allowed me to write while underway! This would be in South Carolina.
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Housework (boatwork?) and laundry still had to happen - this could've been anywhere (not an ocean voyage though).
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Castleton on Hudson. Getting ready to take the mast down to continue the journey under bridges!
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Work work work - topping up with water in Beaufort, South Carolina.
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Georgetown South Carolina. It's not all work, sometimes there's play. We spent sometime with our great friends from The Netherlands 'Tash and Den. They were on their sailboat called Frodo. Here, 'Tash and I had chatted up (or got chatted up) by the local tour boat, so they invited us along for a ride. They made us haul lines too!
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Noel and Den setting up our small TV on a glorious evening anchored near Cumberland Island, Georgia.
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Of course the girls had the most fun. That day the four of us trekked on the island, getting stuck in mud, getting acquainted with tics and having a jolly good time!
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Sigh - back to work. I loved being in Alabama, everyone was so polite and helpful... a different way of life. We were there out of season and so the marina car was more-or-less our own. A big American tank with country music blaring out - the shops felt too close sometimes!
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A taster for the next blog - I'll post pictures of us on the canals.
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Val
11/13/2015 08:42:28 am

So lovely to see photos of parts I remember from your book, Jackie. Tash looks just as I imagined her!

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Jackie Parry link
11/13/2015 09:04:52 am

Thanks Val - glad you enjoyed them. I am especially glad that Tash looks how you imagined, it seems I did my job in the book! :-)

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