We're on the Mississippi 8/29/08

Hello All:

We are in Alton, IL on the Mississippi River; Alton is a suburb of St. Louis. Turns out the Illinois is not so nice. There is very low water in the Peoria area and south of there. There are no marinas in Peoria that have enough water for us to get into. We would definitely recommend anchoring.

We hurried to Alton as we lost a very dear friend and we needed to rent a car and drive home and on the north Georgia. We returned to the boat today and are preparing to leave tomorrow and will dock at Hoppie's tomorrow night. There is a hurricane threat on the Gulf coast so we will hurry to reach Green Turtle Bay before the remains of it reach there. WE WILL CROSS OUR WAKE AT GREEN TURTLE BAY !!!!!

Our plan is to leave the boat at Green Turtle until around October 10th and then move on to Joe Wheeler and on to Florida in November.

We are still with Larry and Lola aboard "Lola Marie" and are looking forward to seeing many of you either in Nashville or in Alabama.

See you out there somewhere . . .
Ann & Rob