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WELCOME TO AT EASE ON ADAGIO
Boating Adventures with Charles and Kay Mortimer
Join us on the Adagio as we travel The Great Loop - a 6,000-mile nautical journey around the eastern third of the United States.
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AT EASE ON ADAGIO
Charles and Kay Mortimer's Boating Adventures on The Great Loop
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
Crossing our Wake
After the Rendezvous, Adagio cruised south for four days to Pickwick Lake and then down the Tennessee-Tombigbee River to our home port of...
Kay
Oct 24, 20222 min read
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Looper Rendezvous
After leaving Paducah, Kentucky, we made our way up the Ohio River and down the Cumberland River to Paris Landing Marina near Buchanan,...
Kay
Oct 24, 20221 min read
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Correction to Paducah Post
The Lewis and Clark expedition was 1804-06 - not 1904-06. Sorry about the typo!
Kay
Sep 24, 20221 min read
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$5 Bought Paducah
A bronze statue in Paducah, Kentucky states that in 1803, Meriwether Lewis paid $20 for his Newfoundland dog, Seaman, who traveled the...
Kay
Sep 23, 20222 min read
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Mighty Mississippi
With thoughts of Huck Finn top of mind, we entered the Mississippi just south of Hannibal, Missouri where the Illinois River meets the...
Kay
Sep 19, 20222 min read
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Meet Me in St. Louis!
Judy Garland sang Skip to My Lou, The Trolley Song, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and the title song, Meet Me in St. Louie,...
Kay
Sep 19, 20222 min read
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Return to the Rivers
After bidding farewell to Laura, Eliza, and Leslie in Chicago, Adagio turned once again to the rivers of America’s great heartland - the...
Kay
Sep 18, 20222 min read
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The Windy City
The origins of Chicago's famous nickname vary from the frigid winds that sweep across Lake Michigan into the city's streets, to the...
Kay
Sep 11, 20222 min read
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No Salt, No Sharks, No Worries!
Southerners are justly proud of our beautiful beaches, but western Michiganders are equally fond of the towering sand dunes and beaches...
Kay
Sep 11, 20222 min read
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Charlevoix the Beautiful
Leaving the Straits of Mackinac at the tip of northern Michigan, we turned to port and began the 300-mile journey down Lake Michigan to...
Kay
Aug 18, 20222 min read
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Great Lakes Trivia Quiz
Since the Great Lakes comprise a significant part of the Great Loop, we thought a short quiz might capture some of their many highlights,...
Kay
Aug 18, 20222 min read
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Furries, Fudgies, and Buggies
Leaving Canada and Lake Huron in her wake, Adagio cruised west to the Straits of Mackinac (pronounced Mack-i-naw) toward Lake Michigan. ...
Kay
Aug 16, 20222 min read
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Gitche Gumee
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When...
Kay
Aug 10, 20222 min read
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Hazel
With Adagio docked securely at DeTour Village Marina on Michigan's Upper Penisula, we flew home just in time for the birth of our newest...
Kay
Aug 9, 20221 min read
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Correction
Our recent “Back to the USA” post may have mistakenly sounded as though our new granddaughter is already here, but she is not due until...
Kay
Jul 24, 20221 min read
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Back in the USA!
Anchored our last night out in a wide bay with pristine gravel shores so perfect they could only have been built by the Corps of...
Kay
Jul 23, 20221 min read
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Manitoulin Island and the North Channel
From Killarney Adagio cruised southwest to Manitoulin Island, called "Spirit Island" by the First Nations people for the powerful spirit...
Kay
Jul 23, 20221 min read
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The Route to Killarney - and Beyond
Boaters traveling from the Bustard Islands in Georgian Bay to Killarney and the North Channel have two options. They can use the...
Kay
Jul 23, 20221 min read
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Pink Granite and Peaceful Inlets
Discovered by French explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1615, Georgian Bay stretches 120 miles from southeast to northwest and is 50 miles...
Kay
Jul 23, 20221 min read
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Adagio's Newest Crew Member
While waiting at the Lock 44 marina to transit the Big Chute Marine Railway, we decided to explore the surrounding area on our e-bikes. ...
Kay
Jul 16, 20221 min read
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