Great Progress in 2022

Closing 2022, thought I would recap some of our journey. We left in October and traveled down many rivers including Cumberland, Tennessee, Black Warrior, Tom Bigbee, Mobile River, and Apalachicola, all connected by 13 locks. We covered 1,200 statute miles (sm) in 17 travel days. We averaged 70 sm per travel day, going at an average speed of 10 mph. Along the way, we stayed in 15 marinas and 2 anchorages on the TennTom. After Mobile Bay, we crossed the additional bays of Perido, Pensacola, Choctawhatchee, St. Andrew, Apalachicola Bay, and finally the Gulf of Mexico. We left at 10 a.m. from Apalachicola and traveled thru St.George Sound and waited at Dog Island for other boats to join us in crossing the Gulf overnite. Our trip had fairly calm waters and a bright full moon sky. After 180 sm from Dog Island, we arrived in Clearwater, Florida about 10 a.m., a bit exhaused and exhilarted that the longest travel day was behind us. Being home in Kentucky has been a wonderful reprieve from the trip and we are ready in 2023, to travel around the Florida Coast.