Grand HarborMarina - 10/9/10 (second Day)

As you can tell from the title we just couldn't leave this place today. This is absolutely one of the nicest places we have stayed so far. Staying a second day gave us the opportunity to do our laundry and tour the Shiloh National Park & Battlefield. Watching the movie at the visitors center about the battle and the young lives lost was very sobering. During our trip out the first mate had to get a shopping fix so we visited a couple stores looking for stuff to decorate the boat. I think we are running out of wall space pretty quickly.

Tomorrow we plan to leave early for the 40 plus miles to Florence, AL which will make the 6th state we have been into on this trip. This is where our friend Fred Myers lives and he has told us not to miss a visit to the Helen Keller birthplace. I can really understand how after making this adventure, some folks just keep on going again. The scenery along the way is nothing short of awesome. The few pictures we are able to post cannot do justice. Then of course as we have said before, the people you meet both on the rivers and in the marinas are fantastic. It doesn't matter if you are sharing a slip with a 80 footer (as we are here) or a 16 footer, everyone is equal as a boater. The guy next to us was on the dock to catch our ropes when we pulled in and in the course of meeting him, found out he just bought the boat in the Chesapeake last summer, went up thru the Great Lakes and is now on his way to California via the Panama Canal. Just another boater!

Speaking of posting, the wifi in the marina has to be rented by the week for almost $25 so we are relying on our Verizon air card for service and the transfer rate is very slooow.

After our day on "terra firma" we stopped for a burger on the way back to the marina and was treated to the awesome sunset show in the last picture.