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