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Showing posts with label press coverage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label press coverage. Show all posts

Friday, October 15, 2010

Press Release

What's a blog post without a pretty picture?  Here's the new moon over Birdsong Marina.
The Dragonfly's been getting some  press, and we know Mom wants to hear the stories!

1. Last week, at Paris Landing, we had a visit from Jacque Day, public radio reporter for WKMS-FM in Murray, Kentucky.  We took her for a quick--ahem, I mean, a slow spin in the boat, and she filed this story.                       

2. Earlier this week, we scored a rental car and zoomed north, ironically burning fuel to attend a meeting on "Food, Fuel, and Society" in Columbia, Missouri.  At the meeting, ag journalist Pam Fretwell recorded an interview with the crew for the radio show, "Living a Better Life."  



Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Doin' The Loop


Where We Stayed: Kewaunee, Wisconsin.  We rose at dawn
to see this tall ship docked across the harbor!

Boaters always ask each other, “Where did you come from? and “How long you out for?”

When we say “The Erie Canal,” and “A whole year—we’re doing the Great Loop,” we get confused looks. That’s because out here, in the Midwest, it’s trendy to do a “Great Circle” tour, which is a circumnavigation of one of the Great Lakes.

But nope, our route is the Great LOOP. There’s no concise way to describe where it takes you. I usually say, “The Great Loop is the system of waterways that turns North America, east of the Mississippi, into one enormous island.” Whew!

(If you have trouble picturing that, here’s a map.)

Thursday, May 27, 2010

We Leave Today . . .

. . . for Macedon, NY, the port on the Erie Canal where our boat is docked. We'll make some adjustments to the engine, stow our gear, do a shakedown cruise while towing our dinghy (more on THAT unusual boat later!), and smash a bottle of champagne on the bow. Then, on June 1, we cruise away!

You can read a story about our voyage on Penn State Live.