Departure minus 12 days. .
Seems as though I missed a day already. . Was down with some virus yesterday and didn’t get out of bed. Better today and the journey actually begins today. Going up to Joe Wheeler where we keep the boat and bring it down to Florence. That’s normally a 3-4 hour run with two dams to lock through. Tomorrow we take the boat down to Iuka Mississippi where we will get it hauled and do a bottom job. That’s about a 50 mile run a and will take most of the day. Will be out of the water for about a week and assuming there is no problem with the boat we will be out of here the next weekend and on our way. That’s more like 9 or 10 days to departure.
Things are falling into place. Found a farm that will donkey-sit for four months. That was the biggest problem that I had to deal with. Will begin hauling them down there this week. Carol has found someone to pick up our mail and open everything and go through it for us so we can pay the bills. House and yard are taken care of so that’s not a problem,
Yesterday I ordered a new electronic chart plotter which should be here next week. I can install it on the way. It has all of the latest cartography of the inland rivers. The last of the paper charts and cruising guides arrived in the mail yesterday so we have all of the navigational items we need.
We are going to stay on the boat tonight and tomorrow in Iuka so we can determine if there’s anything else to do to the boat before departure.
Voyages of Annie 