Great Circle Loop /CC23 ":Simplicity"

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Jim,
For us it was because we had done the FLorida east coast and eastern united states several years ago. THere are areas we would like to go back to and spend more time, but we would trailer her there and launch closer. We are definitely going to do the St. Johns side trip one day. We would go back to Canada, Michigan and Wisconsin. We really had a great time and wouldn't do it differently, but everyone is different. THere are so many people who would not even attempt to do what we did in our boat. I guess you might say it will bring you closer or a divorce one. You have to love boating , the person you are with and not be claustrophobic. We did do the Cumberland River all the way up and enjoyed it. We decided we will do the Tennessee River possibly next fall up to Knoxville and Chattanooga.

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After 8 months on land we were ready for some more cruising. We decided to trailer the boat to Lake Superior and cruise the Apostle Islands. We departed Fla on June 28 and camped on our way up in the boat at State Parks in Rogersville, Al(Wheeler), Rend Lake in Southern Illinois and Starved Rock State Park in Illinois. We arrived at my sisters in Winneconne, Wis July 2nd and celebrated the 4th with her and Phil. We decided to do a little shakedown cruise on Lake Winnebago for a three days. We stayed overnight at High Cliff State Park after stopping at Manasha for lunch. The next day we cruised to Fond Du Lac for lunch then cruised on the Fox River to Omro and stayed overnight on their town dock.
We left Winneconne on the July 8th and headed to Lake Superior. We launched the boat at Red Cliff which is about three miles north of Bayfield at Buffalo Bay Campground and marina.We were going to stay just overnight, but after talking to the manager we decided to make this our home base because it was going to be just 250.00 for a month and that included electricity, launching, storing the trailer and car. We even have smoking WI-FI as a bonus. It came out to $8.33 per day, so therefore it was a no brainer.

We are cruising the islands on good days(no wind or little) and exploring by car on the other days. We just spent 2 days in the Duluth area by car while waiting for the weather to clear.

We are continuing our blog for this trip.
www.voyageofsimplicity.blogspot.com