Birds Eye View

One of the fellow Loopers had a new toy and was flying it around the marina.  Here are a few pics from above.  See if you can find Viridian

Status Update:  Today (Thursday) is the last day of the Rendezvous.  Wilson Lock is closed every day from 6am to 6pm.  They are working with the Loopers going West and are offering the auxiliary lock starting at 4:30 pm only if several boats are organized and ready to lock through.  Wilson recommends one boat on each bollard with another boat rafted on.  It will be close to dark by the time everyone gets cleared and the only marina within reach is Florence marina.  They too are working with us to make sure we all can safely tie up over night so we can have a full day to get to where ever we are going the next day.  Also, looks like some weather coming in Sunday-Monday.  Since we are in no hurry we have a few options: stay where we are a few days or lock down with a group on Saturday (Friday already has maxed out).  We will know more after today's briefing... Stay tuned!

That's the news and here's the views:

A Day at the Rendezvous

Views from the Loopers Conference

Loopers meeting room

A rear view from Viridian

Loopers "in progress" get to  address the audience and describe their journey so far.  We had on only one day under out belt at this point, others had  just crossed their wake.  There were others everywhere in between.

Here are all the Loopers that attended the Fall 2017 Rendezvous at Joe Wheeler SP
(we are on the far right end)

America's Great Loop Cruisers Association (AGLCA) Rendezvous 2017

We got signed in to the conference yesterday and started meeting all the people who were either in progress on the Loop or in the planning stage.  2/3 of the people here at Joe Wheeler are in the planning stage. Loopers "in progress" get to address the audience and describe their journey so far.  We had only one day under our belt at this point, while others had just crossed their wake.  There were others everywhere in between.

We are here

That's the news and here's the views:

Morning at the marina

Room full of  Loopers and future Loopers.  There are around 200 people attending and 1/3 are in progress.

A view from Viridian

For Women Only!!!!

I was getting ready for our sightseeing trip into the town of Rogersville, AL and was wondering, "Now where did I put my hairdryer????”  All of a sudden the music from Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, started playing in my head.  You know the music from the shower/stabbing scene? I didn't bring my hairdryer!!!!!!  Mayday, Mayday, stop the loop, we're going back home!!!!!  After calming down, I thought, never fear, William, Stephen and Sarah are near!  So, William is sending it to me in the mail (thanks William) and the sweet accommodating receptionist at Joe Wheeler Lodge found one for me until I get mine next week.  Emergency is over :-)

OK, George said why don't you just go buy a hairdryer at Dollar General? To that I replied, "George, my hairdryer is ionic and doesn't dry my hair out as badly as some others". Husbands can be so cute when they're trying to help solve your problems.  And thanks Jackie for the great short haircut that air-dried really cute today!!!!

We are here

That's the news and here's the views:

We went downtown Rogersville by way of courtesy van
(Our inside the store pics have not loaded)


Browning turkey for chili

Crock-Pot chili!

Since all the Loopers arrived here at Joe Wheeler, the Park Wi-Fi network has been swamped and we only get one bubble on our local Wi-Fi tethering.  We have more pictures that we would like to share but its taking FOREVER for them to load.

Cruising around the harbor in the Jazzy.