If you want to see God Laugh just tell him your plans.

Plan A:  Leave in June or July and spend a month on the upper Ohio River before we head south on the Tennessee River. We went to a seminar and the presenters told us how many quaint town there are and how inexpensive it is because most of the towns have free docking because they want boaters to stop by.

Results of Plan A: Karen got Appendix cancer and wasn’t well enough to leave that early but the trip is still on. (I’m cancer free and doing well)

Plan B:  Leave Mid August go north, cut across to Wisconsin spend some time in Door County. Meet up with Karen’s parents, Scott’s Mom and sister.  Then head south and meed up with Niece Lauren and  Lee and baby Audie and Karen’s sister Terrie and Barry. Then onto Chicago to start our trip.

Results of Plan B

Scott ruptured a disc in his back and had surgery on Aug, 5.  Luckily the basic recovery is 4 weeks and we should be able to leave at the normal time people usually leave from Michigan which is early September.

Plan C

Leave as soon as we have a weather window to cross Lake Michigan immediately after Labor Day.

The great thing about the later departure is we won’t miss the Shrimp Boil or the President’s Dinner that our Marina puts on.

Two great opportunities to put on some winter fat so we will survive this adventure 😉

Flexibility is the name of the game.

Since we have moved aboard there is lots to do.   We took a quick trip to  Colorado to visit Scott’s Dad and Barbara.  They are both doing well. So good to spend time with them and visit with my neice Cassie and Bobbie

We are getting more organized and getting projects done.  Island Time Wifi Booster installed, Inverted installed.  Half the clothes I brought are going back to storage.  Feeling pretty good.

When we got back from Colorado the boat needed some serious cleaning.  We scrubbed and got everything shiny clean.  It is serious spider time on boats.  So I went around with the peppermint oil spray and doused the boat.  Suddenly Scott and I became obsessed with spider killing.  After no more spiders were seen, evening came and they came out of everywhere.  The first one we threw in the water got snatched by a fish.  That fueled our fire.   We were running around the boat and pier literally grabbing spiders in our fists and throwing in the water and watching the fish eat them. We were like little kids giggling and each spider as it became fish food.  At one point we looked at each other and said  “The spiders have twisted our sense of enjoyment”  Ahh life on the boat.

Happy to be living on board, but not so happy that I still has to work this week.  True boat life will begin next week.

We just got out new Dahon Fold-up bike with a Burley Travoy trailer.  We are ready to anchor, take the bikes into shore on the dinghy to sight see or do the dreaded laundry.