Voyages of Annie, The Great American Whistle Hunt, December 6

Annie is currently in Florence Alabama. Came through the locks at Wheeler Dam and Wilson Dam yesterday morning. These are the locks that have the 85 foot drop…. pretty wild. Going down in a lock is somewhat like putting a ping-pong ball in the commode and then flushing it….and Annie and I are the [...]

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Voyages of Annie, The Great American Whistle Hunt, December 2

I have arrived at the rather astonishing conclusion that when you are river cruising there are only two ways to go…upstream and downstream…..so why do I need all of these complicated nautical charts???
We have made Guntersville, Alabama a center of our river travels as there is a nice marina here and there is [...]

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