Day one of a New Cruising Journey

Today is Monday, October 14, 2013 and after a year of many surprises and happenings, we arrived back in Grand Rivers, Kentucky to take Queen Kathleen to her home state of Texas. We left one year ago for a knee replacement surgery and with the intention of selling her. After having two contracts fall through and the boat enduring one hard Kentucky winter, we've decided to go back to Texas, namely Kemah which is near Houston. We anticipate the first segment to Mobile to take approximately two weeks. Then we'll briefly return to San Antonio. Once returning to Mobile, we'll take the final segment to Kemah which will take another two weeks. We'll finally be able to fly the gold looper flag indicating we've completed the loop! The Kemah area is huge and we think we'll have a better opportunity to sell once we get there. Unfortunately I left my camera at home but do have my phone so I'll see if I can post some photos along the way. If not, I'll definitely have it on the last segment. The plan is to leave tomorrow with our friend Bill Seward who is moving his boat back to Texas also. His journey is going to stop at Colombus, Mississippi temporarily but it will be good to travel with another boat along the Tennessee River stretch as it's fairly isolated. Rain is expected tomorrow so we may have to wait until Wednesday before leaving but we'll see.