Surf & Turf Retirement Adventures

Category: Travel Day

Travel Day: Oct. 6, 23 (Joliet, IL to Ottawa, IL

(Scott here)Travel Day # 4 I am using this blog as my notes and Float Plan (for our kids to know where we should be.) Click here to download the USCG Float Plan. Phone numbers for USCG offices can be found here. Initial PlanDate: October 6, 2023Route name in Aqua Maps: TD: 10/01/23 (Joliet to…

October 6, 2023
Travel Day: Oct. 5, 23 (Hammond, IN to Joliet, IL) Travel Day #3

(Scott here)Travel Day #3 Click here to download the USCG Float Plan. Phone numbers for USCG offices can be found here. We belong to the AGLCA, America’s Great Loop Cruiser’s Association) and are following the Flotilla plan they put together. Over 250 boats trying to get through the IL River in a very short period…

October 4, 2023
Travel Day #2 stats

Travel Day #2 Stats, September 29, 2023

September 29, 2023
Travel Day: Sept 29, 23 (Kenosha to Hammond, IN) Travel Day #2

Travel day #2, Kenosha, WI to Hammond, IN plan.

September 28, 2023
Travel Day: Sept 21, 23 (Sheboygan to Kenosha)

Travel day plans. Sheboygan to Kenosha.

September 19, 2023
July 10, 2023 Travel Day update

(Scott here) We made it safe and sound!! It was a good day to travel, and I really missed being on the boat. Living in the RV is not going to be easy knowing the boat is only 1 hour or so away from me. Rita has already made plans to be on the boat…

July 10, 2023
July 10, 2023 is a PLANNED travel day

July 10 is a travel day – by boat FINALLY!

July 9, 2023
First Day of Great Loop

First day of the Great Loop didn’t go as planned!

May 20, 2023
April 19, 2023 was a travel day

(Scott here) April 19, 2023. Rita is still in MN visiting family. Today is a planned break day on working on the bottom of the boat to travel to our new location. It is just Jazzy and me! It is still cold. I didn’t know until the day before where we were going, but so…

April 24, 2023
April 10, 2023 was a travel day

(Scott here) Here I am getting caught up! April 10, 2023 is the official start of our “Summer 2023” leg of life. We left the family drive-way in Brookfield and headed north to Kohler-Andrea State Park in Sheboygan. We left at 1:20 pm and arrived at 3:36 pm. We drove 59 miles in 1:13. We…

April 23, 2023