GETTING READY TO DO THE GRR*

*Great River Road



Sunday, September 3, 2023

 

Wylie at Mile Zero

They say that travels consist of three roughly equal parts: Preparation, Travel, and Reminiscing. If so, we are nearly done with stage one, as we are scheduled to hitch up our travel trailer and head east in 24 hours. The Nissan is stuffed with our folding bicycles, two kayaks, a couple camp chairs, and the Honda generator. Meanwhile the trailer has received its first allotment of dry goods and clothing. Today we added the refrigerated items and then all the other things we have forgotten until now. Whew!

 

All of this began six months ago with a conversation on the dock with our good yacht
Guidebooks and Maps

club friends, Mark and Peg Cheirrett. They glowingly told us of their trip down the Mississippi River Road last summer. They took a month in their RV to travel out to the Mississippi River headwaters at Lake Itasca, down the Mississippi to New Orleans and then back home to Seattle. Later they even loaned us their reference materials, maps, and notes.

 

A New Sticker on the Back Window

Since then, we have received numerous suggestions form friends who have lived or traveled along the route and gave us pointers and travel suggestions. As we got closer to our departure time; our enthusiasm only grew. So far, we have scheduled one stop: our first night out (Monday) will be to visit our nephews Chris and Tara in Uniontown (near Pullman), Washington.

 

 
This blog is intended to be a scaled down version of our Schatzi Cruising Blog. Our plan is to announce a new posting to the blog perhaps once a week (or so). In each posting we will write of our travel highlights and include a (very) few of our best photos.

 

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Happy Trails!

 

 
Roger, Lynne and Salty,

425-755-4193

Rdwerner47@gmail.com


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