Bob and Jack relaxing on the front deck. Below, me carrying one of the dogs from the flooded parking lot to the ramp on the dock. We waded through knee deep water for a week! Believe it or not our feet got really clean!
Well we've been river rats for 2 weeks now. We've
endured the flooding of the MS river, no electric for 1 week, nice weather and wonderful people who treated us
like old friends and not just acquaintances.
We've had to do several fix ups and repairs on
our boat, and we expected that. Its an old and very
inexpensive boat.
During this 2 weeks we have also
tried to get insurance for this boat.
Just liability. Comprehensive on such
an old boat may not be important but
liability a necessity. We researched the insurance issue
before we bought the boat and
talked to BoatUS on the phone. What we failed
to understand is that the Survey (appraisal) of a boat is required. It costs to haul the boat out of
the water, travel expenses for the
surveyor and the survey. It
turns
out that in this part of Illinois, very
rural, that a surveyor would have to come from
Chicago. It would cost us a third
of the cost of the boat. Suffice
it to say we have searched the
internet, our insurance company tried,
etc, etc. We
have decided to sell
and get back in to the
camper lifestyle. So
sad.
We are
thinking about
taking up bicycling
and strive to
visit all the
National Parks.
Also visit all of
our friends and
family.
Bob has been to every state in the US now and, my last
state to visit
is Alaska so
next Spring we
will head out
there across
Canada. We are
still voyagers.
Terry