Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 7:30 am
This portion of our adventure will be aboard Adventure, the 62-foot Nordhavn trawler owned by Mark and Diane Holt of Mason City. Gale and Maureen spent a week with the Holt's on their new boat last May as they moved Adventure across the Gulf of Mexico from Sarasota, Florida to Mobile, Alabama. After we left them, they continued up the inland waterways and kept the boat in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, for the summer. It is now time to move her back down to Florida.
We met Mark and Diane at the Mason City airport this morning shortly before 8 am. It was a bright and sunny morning; the temperature was probably around 50 degrees and we hoped to see mid 60's today. We flew with them in a 7-seater airplane to LaCrosse. Our pilot was Todd Kyle and also flying with us was Mark Halvorson who will be picking Gale and Maureen up in Paducah, Kentucky, next weekend to fly us back to Mason City. It's nice to have friends with airplanes! When we approached LaCrosse, the fog rolled in and we thought we were going to have to land in Hudson, Minnesota and drive to LaCrosse, however, the fog parted enough to allow us to land. We all piled into a van at the airport and were driven to the marina.
At 11 am we pulled away from the dock and headed south down the Mississippi River. Shortly after noon, Diane made Bloody Marys and we enjoyed an afternoon of cruising and visiting in Adventure's wheelhouse. We anchored at Schmidt Island, McGregor, Iowa, just north of where the Wisconsin River enters the Mississippi. After a wonderful dinner of salmon, broccoli, potatoes, salad and wine, we were in bed around 10:30 pm.
This portion of our adventure will be aboard Adventure, the 62-foot Nordhavn trawler owned by Mark and Diane Holt of Mason City. Gale and Maureen spent a week with the Holt's on their new boat last May as they moved Adventure across the Gulf of Mexico from Sarasota, Florida to Mobile, Alabama. After we left them, they continued up the inland waterways and kept the boat in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, for the summer. It is now time to move her back down to Florida.
We met Mark and Diane at the Mason City airport this morning shortly before 8 am. It was a bright and sunny morning; the temperature was probably around 50 degrees and we hoped to see mid 60's today. We flew with them in a 7-seater airplane to LaCrosse. Our pilot was Todd Kyle and also flying with us was Mark Halvorson who will be picking Gale and Maureen up in Paducah, Kentucky, next weekend to fly us back to Mason City. It's nice to have friends with airplanes! When we approached LaCrosse, the fog rolled in and we thought we were going to have to land in Hudson, Minnesota and drive to LaCrosse, however, the fog parted enough to allow us to land. We all piled into a van at the airport and were driven to the marina.
At 11 am we pulled away from the dock and headed south down the Mississippi River. Shortly after noon, Diane made Bloody Marys and we enjoyed an afternoon of cruising and visiting in Adventure's wheelhouse. We anchored at Schmidt Island, McGregor, Iowa, just north of where the Wisconsin River enters the Mississippi. After a wonderful dinner of salmon, broccoli, potatoes, salad and wine, we were in bed around 10:30 pm.
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