Back Home

Sorry we disappeared on you.   We're now back home and getting resettled to normal life. We drove from the gulf up through Memphis, St Louis, Iowa, into MN and arrived home on Monday evening.  The Blue Fin has been washed down to remove the remnants of salt water and the motor was flushed out too. I've been told the salt is really bad for the motor and will also eat the thin aluminum skin of the boat. Tomorrow we'll deliver it to Matt's house where it'll find a home and assume a new life as a boat for ordinary outings hopefully long into the future. When I first purchased the Blue Fin 13 months ago the thought was to use it for this trip and then sell it. Because it worked so well and was a pleasure to drive we decided to keep it to kick around Minnesota and places nearby.

Washed, polished and ready to move, the Blue Fin will find it's permanent home at Matt's house. We plan to do some additional work on the trailer to upgrade the fenders and add a fold over tongue so it can be fit into a smaller space.

I plan to put up a few more posts before I end this adventure to make sure I cover some details that might be useful for anyone else planning a trip such as our's.  I want to list out a daily log of our start and stop locations along with the accommodations we found. Included will be food, marinas, motels and such things as that and I'll try to put up maps of the "points of interest" I had compiled in preparation for the trip. During the pre-trip research phase the info I found on other's websites was invaluable so this effort will be my way of giving back. Maybe it will provide someone else with the knowledge needed to execute a similar adventure. I plan to leave the blog up forever, or at least forever from my perspective.  If Google goes bankrupt then maybe that'll be the end but I don't plan to take it down anytime soon and I'd bet Google doesn't go broke. I've already discovered that it makes a nice walk down memory lane for Mary and me.

Interstate Highway 10 tunnel under Mobile's industrial canal.  Notable because the Blue Fin crossed it's own wake when passing through here. It went over the top via water on Thursday and on Sunday it went underneath through this tunnel.

The "MAP US" tab that shows our location has now been disabled so you'll no longer be able to track us. You didn't want to watch me going to work everyday anyway, did you?

Look for a few more post over the next weeks and thank you for tracking along with us. It caused us a feeling of comfort having you with us as we traveled.

This is completely unrelated to our boat trip but worthy of comment. 

Go green, ride the bus, and convert your car into a garden. 

Our daughter Ellie using her car to develop a new gardening technique for those crowded urban lots. 

I wonder if a car wash would work in case of a drought?