Upper Miss. Mile 634.7 to Mile 582

0850 Departed Marquette Marina after filling with 135 gals of diesel. Last fill was Oct 2006! Did 2 locks with only 1 hour lock delay. 35 degrees this morning so it was nice to have shore power. 1620 arrived Dubuque Marina. Home maid pizza is on the dinner menu.
Joe & Arvilla

Upper Miss. Mile 714 to Mile 634.5

Departed Trempealeau, mile 714.3 which is our home port at 0650. Made 4 lockage's and 80 miles. At Marquette Marine at 1650.
For our non boating friends, the mileage on the Upper Mississippi starts at Cairo,IL at the mouth of the Ohio River with
Mile 0. Our home port is mile 714.3 and St. Paul is mile 840.
Joe and Arvilla

America's Great Loop Cruise Routes

Delay Starting Great Loop

Due to a family member's health issue we will be starting the Loop on 11 Oct 07.
Joe and Arvilla

These Two Boats Call the Mississippi River System Home

KEDGE

Al & Rie Peterson

St. Louis Park, MN

OUR VILLA
Joe & Arvilla Glinski

Plover, WI

Joe and Arvilla Glinski took posession of OUR VILLA, hull 56 in Vermont. They cruised norht on Lake Champlain and the Chambly Canal, throught the St. Lowrenece Seaway to Lake Ontario. Then the Trent Servern and Georgian Bay in Canada to Lake Huron and Lake Michiagan to Chicago. Then onto the Illinois river to the Mississippi river, north to their homeport of Trempealeau Wisconsin.


Al and Rie Peterson have logged over 6,000 hours in KEDGE, hull 43, on rivers, lakes and oceans in the Eastern half of the United States. The photograph was take on the St. Croix river which is a tributary of the Mississippit and boundary between Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Starting Great Loop

OUR VILLA is docked at Trempealeau,WI at Upper Mississippi River mile 714. We will start the Loop on 23 Sept 07.
Joe and Arvilla