Category: Barkley Lake

October 25, 2017  Wed: Paducah to Grand Rivers, KY

On October 11, 2016, we left our home in Port Townsend, WA, trailered Andiamo over 2500 miles to Grand Rivers, KY and launched her at Green Turtle Bay on Lake Barkley, October 25, 2016. Today, October 25, 2017, we crossed our wake, meaning that we are back to the body of water that we started from.

Since leaving home, we have been in two countries, the US and Canada. We have traveled in twenty-six states, nineteen by boat. We cruised rivers, lakes, the Intracostal Waterway, the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and man-made channels/canals. We also locked through at least eighty locks from river levels to lake levels down to sea level and back up to rivers and the Great Lakes.  Along the way, we visited family and friends and forged new friendships.  The amount of history we learned was worthy of a degree. What an adventure!

We have traveled over 10,000 miles and still have over 3,000 to go as we travel to visit family and friends in Missouri and Arizona before returning to our home. To all that have made our journey an extraordinary adventure, we thank you and look forward to seeing you again. Special thanks to our lifetime friends, Karen and Henry Heflin, for joining us at Green Turtle Bay to celebrate “Crossing our Wake!”

Join us as we lock through our last lock and cruise into Green Turtle Bay Marina. The three attached videos, from the last mile of our loop, are 6x the actual rate, except where the lock is filling with water, which is 32x the actual rate. If you watch the left side of the lock you can see the increase of the water level.