Hello and welcome! In just a few short months, Tim, and I and our black lab, Millie are embarking on the adventure of a lifetime and heading out on our American Tug, Observer. We are going to be circumnavigating the eastern portion of the United States and Canada by boat on a journey called the Great Loop. The Great Loop, also known as the Great Circle Route, is mostly traveled counterclockwise, chasing the seasons. The basic premise is to spend the summer up in Canada and the Great Lakes, head south along the inland rivers in the fall, winter in Florida and head up the east coast in the spring. Our plan is to leave Danvers on May 22 (only 10 weeks from today!) and officially start the loop at the entrance to New York Harbor. We will follow the Hudson River to the Erie Canal to Canada, over to Lake Michigan, down to Chicago, to the Illinois River which leads to the Upper Mississippi which connects to the Ohio River onto the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers and onto