We lived aboard Letitia and cruised fulltime for 20 months starting January 2004 We started from Slidell, La, spent a summer on the Chesapeake and winter in Wilmington, NC and then continued the loop up the east coast, through the Trent-Severn, and then down the normal route to Pickwick Lake at the top of the Tenn-Tom where Letitia spent the winter. We spun for 5 months and then started off again - in a different direction. After 'walking the dog'(surely you remember all those old tricks with that white and green striped Duncan?) for 800 miles on the Tennessee we have felt the snap and have started spinning back up the string. We'll head back up the Mississippi in about a week and then up the Illinois to Lake Michigan. Right now the plan is to find heated winter storage this winter in Michigan and drift east over the next couple of summers. I guess to be true to the analogy, we will have turn around and head back down toward Mobile again but twice on the Mississippi may turn out to be more than I want. :-) See you on the loop (or the YOYO depending...) **************** Elliott Bray M/V Letitia - Gulfstar 44 MC Cruising the Tennessee *************