Yes friends, today we took a step back in time to the days of the Roaring Twenties when prohibition was in and Alphonse Capone was king. We decided that no trip to Chicago was complete without taking the Untouchables Tour, a two hour bus ride through the old neighborhoods where Capone, O’Banion, Weiss […]
With those words in June of 1944, the US Navy for the first time since 1815 sent sailors in a whaleboat to attempt to capture a German U-Boat. If you ever get a chance to Google “U-505” you will read an amazing story of daring action that allowed us to capture a scuttled submarine sinking
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Friends we have had quite a day. Having now been to New York City and Chicago I can say without reservation that Chicago is cleaner, friendlier, better run and prettier. It just is. How about taking a quick tour with me? We begin with an architectural boat tour through the Illinois Sanitary Canal which used to
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Today we bid goodbye to our friends Dean and Beth and their bird Ziggy and headed out on our own again for the first time in months to move on down to Shytown, the Windy City, hog butcher to the world, that toddling town of Chicago. Within 30 minutes we were suddenly surprised to find
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On Saturday we left Port Washington and accompanied our friends Dean and Beth Jones and the African Grey parrot Ziggy on our last leg together to their home port of Racine. It was the closing of their loop and we broke out a bottle of champagne we had been saving. We celebrated their accomplishment with
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Today we stepped into it big time. Four foot seas banging us all the way from Manitowoc to Port Washington around 50 miles. What was it like you say? As we pulled out of the harbor this crazy lady was swimming right in the channel. We could have run
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Yes friends, we have made the great crossing to Wisconsin and are eating cheese as I write. Now let me catch you up since we left Leland, MI. The crews of Cbay and Kismet left Leland on Monday at 0700 for the short run of 36 miles down to Frankfort, another quaint little town on
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Today we shook off the cobwebs and started moving. When I say cobwebs I mean the real thing. Jan spent the morning killing all variety of spiders and taking down the webs. With the short breeding season here they must instinctively realize they have a fraction of the time to eat and reproduce so they
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Well we have had some major interest in our latest mystery animal and I had high hopes it would generate interest. There were several guesses at wolverine and badger. The most researched and imaginative guess was from our last contest winner Amy Moon. She guessed a fisher which is a relative of the
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Happy Anniversary to Dr. Allyn Bell and his lovely wife Brenda. By the time you read this they will be celebrating their Golden 50th Anniversary in Florence, Italy. Allyn called me today from overseas to check on our status. He and Brenda are a testament to a lifelong love story.
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