It's Time to Cruise down the Mid-West Rivers (Joliet to Ottawa Illinois)
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- We begin the 3rd section of America's Great Loop, the Mid-West Rivers! Departing the wall in Joliet, we are immediately faced with new cruising grounds, and a new cruising theme. If the Great Lakes and Canada were about taking it slow and spreading out, the Rivers are about coming together and planning our days. We hope you enjoy this new flavor of the Loop!
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Jennifer and Elliot
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🎥 Episode #338 | Filmed on September 22nd, 2022
🇺🇸 America's Great Loop | Joliet, Illinois
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Hi! We are high school sweethearts from Atlanta, Georgia who decided to take a year off to travel around the world. Together we decided to create vlogs for our journey as a fun way to remember it. On September 15, 2019, we left Atlanta with 3 bags, 2 one-way tickets, and 1 goal of traveling for a whole year. Little did we know, 6 months later we would find ourselves in a nationwide lockdown in India. After spending 5 months in India, we came back to the United States and decided to purchase a 34’ Trawler, dive headfirst into boat life, and kick-off America’s Great Loop.
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It's funny this pops up on my youtube feed because I'm actually the Lockmaster at the Dresden Island Lock and Dam. I'm glad you had a good lockage, hopefully my operators accommodated you well!!
@@geraldsnyder516 haha that's awesome! Yes we had great experiences will all the operators 😁
This is another section of the Loop that I have been looking forward to seeing your videos. I grew up boating the Ohio River from the time I was a young baby on my mother's hip way back in the dark ages of the early 1960s. I've never been this far up north in the rivers but I hope to if I get to do the Loop. I'm recently diagnosed with cancer, Burkitt's Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. Right now about all I'm seeing is the inside of hospital rooms and experiencing all the hard things that fighting cancer brings. Your videos are really one of my favorite things and a rallying point for me to get cancer free and start moving towards doing the Loop. I really enjoyed watching your lock throughs. I know I'll always be tied up along a bigger boat since the largest boat I will do the Loop with is no more than 30 feet. That will be fine. I can just tie up and not worry about being along the wall. So looking forward to the rest of your transit of the IWW and on down the Mississippi.
Oh, and Tangled Roots in Ottawa is great!!
You guys know now what is involved in captaining a boat Pivot's size. Can you imagine what kind of skill it would take to captain one of those barge tugs especially when they have multible barges. My boat was 37' and times gave me issues. I know I'd have an ulcer at day's end captaining one of those things.
I absolutely love you both so much great 👍 content.
Love this video! I live in Joliet and own a vacation home at Heritage Harbor in Ottawa so you’re hitting all my special places! Keep up the great work!
I grew up in Marseilles, IL (pronounced Mar-Sales) "The best little town by a dam site." My mom lives in the house on the river closest to the Dam. Spent a lot of time in Ottawa.
Love it, so did I! Outside of town though!!
Thanks for coming to Ottawa!! It's a great little town. Have a safe trip!
Love you guys. Been watching since you started your "Pivot" into boat life.
Drumline ❤
From Davenport, iowa/Mississippi river and living in Peru, il on Illinois. You’ve done such a great job assembling your excursions and I’m suddenly and passionately enjoying your travels.
Safe travels.
Thanks!
Those huge locks put our Trent River locks to Shane!
Haha nice to experience variety 😁
Some REALLY important places you missed filming between the Dresden Lock and Marseilles lock. In Seneca IL, about 2/3 of the way from Dresden Lock, is/was a formed WWII navy shipyard (NO JOKE!) that built the 324ft long LST's that were essential in the D-day landings. The ships were a flat bottom boat that only needed 9ft of water to navigate, making Seneca an ideal inland location. Its something that many people, to this day, do now know as most associate naval ship building with coastal towns.
Interesting history, thanks for sharing
Good to see you all again..... And I'll see ya later..💖
Thanks Karen!
Guess this was last year, so you probably already know, height is to low steel which is usually on each end or the lights hanging down. Water level affects the height to. Think I heard Mississippi was way low last year. Had to close traffic in a couple of places.
It looked like a wonderful first day of cruising down the rivers. Ottawa is such a cute town! Thanks for sharing! 💞
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That’s awesome I remember week g your boat when you were docked in Ottawa.
Great video! Just found your channel! You said Marseilles wrong!! Haha! That’s where I grew up and went to Ottawa High school! Thanks!
I miss you guys!!! You need to do the loop again and make more videos!!😊
Loop round 2! Maybe one day 😁
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Sept. of 22, talk about old home movies. Now comes the local flavor of the loop. Lots of America to view and lots of history. Enjoy.
Thanks Buck!
Another great video. We’re traveling by car next month up to Canada to see the locks. Unfortunately by car, but THANK YOU for the vacation idea.
Oh super cool, hope you have a fun trip!!
If you ever do the great loop again make sure you go north of St Louis on the Mississippi and also do a complete loop of Lake Superior. These 2 destinations that most Loopers miss can make the 2nd Loop really worth doing it again especially late summer and early fall.
I’m sure you two are off on your next great adventure but hope you return to the aforementioned destinations at some point in your life, you won’t be disappointed
Absolutely... We'd love to come back to those regions in the future. Especially Lake Superior, we will check out the National Park at some point up in the next couple years.
Living in Marquette it's easy to take Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore for granted. Absolutely worth the trip for breathtaking views.
Also, I'm a new sub to the channel. My wife and I are currently talking about making the loop ourselves!
Thanks for sharing your adventure.
Awesome. Way to prepare the boat for the unknown. Your poor Great Loop burgee has seen a lot so far.
That it has!
I love the garlic bread part. You two lauch about it :) I would had been cursing to myself :) Thank you for sharing . You had me laughing and smiling 😃
haha thanks Richard
New experiences, new stuff to learn, and continued vicarious entertainment for your loyal viewers! Even though you have finished the journey, at least we get to keep enjoying it a year later!
I'm planning on putting in a dock through fast food restaurant just for folks like you.
A sit down, full service restaurant will get more boats visitors. Take it from a long haul trucker. After driving all day, fast food is the last thing we want.
10:58 I the boat to your port “Viva la Vida” is “The Ramblers” buddy boat from earlier on the loop. Looks like it was a chilly morning for September. Such a cute town. Enjoy the Ride, Bell
LOL saw the title and thought you guys were in Ottawa Canada. I would have come and visited.
Haha, the first time we planned this stop I was confused too!
Love these videos. Feels like I am on the water. Music is fabulous. Love your creative eye
Thanks so much Jessie!
Wow. That was quite a temperature swing -- from AC in Joliet to hats and jackets in late September 🥶
I so look forward to each video. They are so fun. :-)
So excited to do this same trip! Watching all your river system videos today
Wow, Ottawa looks beautiful! It would be interesting to know which towns you liked most on the loop. I wish you were our city planner, Jen. I dont think there is or was a thought put in to my town. Its the oil country of North Dakota, so it's rather torn up. From the drone the town of Ottawa looked amazing.
Thanks for watching Lynn! Interesting, we've never been to North Dakota but hopefully we can explore out there next year. Its always a bit disappointing when a town is just sprawl and no organizations, our home towns are a bit like that. But we can appreciate a good walkable, planned, town when we travel there at least!
@@SchoandJo I recommend coming in June. It's beautiful here in June. If I can help in any way or if you need a place to stop or stay or plug in an RV I would be tickled to help.
@@ldirk58601 Thanks so much!!
Good stuff
Recently subscribed and love your videos! Adventurous and honest content that is both calming and thrilling. Cheers to successful adventures ahead and happy you enjoyed Chicago!
Thanks so much Chris!
Enjoyable video. Hope you were close to a supermarket in Ottowa. Noticed the Endeavour catamaran docked next to you -- they are ungainly looking but very comfortable and efficient.
I enjoy your videos. I'm wondering what the purpose of rafting up in the locks? With all the empty wall space, why not just hug the wall? All the locks by us, we are told to be along the walls, however they are much smaller than these.
More crew to handle the lines.
Garlic pucks 🏒 😉 lol
Featuring "Ollie the Loop Dog".....
You should have bought a copy of Quimbey's river guide.
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Woohoo! First to comment!
Have been watching your loop for the past two years and have really enjoyed your videos. Your sound track selections are always so uplifting, where do you find your selections?
Thanks so much Curtis! I think its one of Jen's special talents haha.. She grabs most of them from MusicBed.
Hi Elliot you mentioned doing your engine checks first thing, have you done a separate video showing what this routine is?
I think this video might have what you’re looking for? Otherwise we have bits and pieces in the rest of our boat videos. If you have any specific questions, let me know!
How we get our Old Trawler Engine Ready for the Great Loop ( engine room tour )
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Thank you. I appreciate you guys sharing so much to benefit others
Love your videos! Quick question, how often do you use your dinghy boat? Is it a pretty critical item? Or could you get away without having one?
Thanks! Since we anchor often and use our dinghy to take our dog to shore, it is critical to us. If you plan on never anchoring and hopping marina to marina, then it is less necessary! Some people use kayaks or paddle boards as an alternative to a dinghy.
Thanks for the quick response! Y'all are the best :) I'm daydream boat shopping and working on my space vs critical items list haha! It would just be myself and an ornery cat planning to marina hop for the most part so we might have more flexibility on the dinghy. Thanks again and safe travels!! :) @@SchoandJo
Did you guys stop at the nearby starved rock? Used to go there all the time when i lived in Ottawa
No, we missed that unfortunately, will have to check it out next time!
If you had to guess, what would you say the bridge clearance on that catamaran in front of you, is?
I know that they made it through Chicago, so just under 17!
@@SchoandJo Wow! Looks taller. Thank you.
I think I may have asked this before, but it also may have been on another channel.
Do you think it would be possible to do the loop while working a 3 week on, 3 week off the boat schedule? I travel for work on that schedule, but my wife would be on the boat. Are there enough marinas along the rivers?
No worries! Yes definitely possible, there are plenty of marinas on the rivers. Their is only a section of 250 miles (3 days roughly) where there are none, but as long as you plan that in your 3 weeks you'll be set. Cheers!
That garlic bread is not burnt. That is why God made cheese graters. The garlic bread can be saved.
haha we definitely still ate it! Not too burnt for me either 😁
I’m surprised that, with all that available lock wall, you have to raft 3-4 deep. Reason?
The lock tenders have their own reasons, perhaps related to current wind conditions or how the current behaves when entering the lock or even the status of the bollards, some may be stuck. They don't share why, but we take their orders as... orders 😁
Amazing videos of yourselves! Barely any shots of scenery, and you don’t know much about boating, but you’re excellent at selfies! Pictures of you for your scrap book
I’m not sure what this comment means, we took plenty of shots of the cruise and also what you mean by we “don’t know much about boating”?
It's spelled like "Mar Say", but for whatever reason the locals all say "Mar Sails". Drives me insane. Same with a creek you passed, named Aux Sable (Owe Sobble), but locals say Aux(illary) SAble (hard "A").
Mar-sales is the proper pronunciation. If you say Mar-tuckey, we'll think you're a local.