“We can tell you where we’re going.  And we can tell you when we’ll get there.  However, we can’t tell you where and when at the same time.”  

We’re (somewhere) along the Great Loop in eastern US and parts of Canada.  The 6,000-mile (and more with side trips) includes the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, the New York State Canals, the Canadian Canals, the Great Lakes, the inland rivers, and the Gulf of Mexico.   Convention is go counterclockwise, follow the good weather, avoid winter ice and hurricane season. “Loopers” generally troll around the Great Lakes and Canadian waterways in summer, travel down the Mississippi or the Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway in fall, cross the Gulf of Mexico and Florida in the winter, and travel up the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in the spring.

Worth a Return Visit

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Michigan

Grey Gables restaurant- Charlevoix
Bier Art Gallery – Charlevoix
Hotel Earl rooftop bar – Charlevoix
Bluefish restaurant- Manistee
Iron Fish Distillery – Thompsonville
Arcadia Bluffs Resort (for sunset) – Arcadia
Ketch 22 food truck – Arcadia
Northern Natural cidery – Kaleva

Ontario
Big Willy’s bar – Killarney

Illinois
Columbia Yacht Club – Chicago
N Grandview Drive – Peoria

Indiana
Haynie’s Corner – Evansville
Jeffersonville

Alabama
Lowe Mill – Huntsville
US Space and Rocket Center – Huntsville
Muscle Shoals Sound Studio – Muscle Shoals
Fairhope

Tennessee
Chattanooga
Knoxville
Tellico Lake

Florida
Naval Aviation Museum – Pensacola
15th Street Fisheries – Ft Lauderdale
Southport Raw Bar – Ft Lauderdale
12A Buoy – Ft Pierce

Georgia
Starland Yard – Savannah
Crystal Beer Parlor – Savannah

South Carolina
The Fillin’ Station – Beaufort
Conway

North Carolina
Mariposa Bakery and Wine Bar – Oriental
Leon’s – Charlestown

Viriginia
Merroir Tasting Room – Topping

Washington DC
Code Red
Library of Congress
Capital Yacht Club
Providencia
The Unforgiving Minute (in the ally catty-corner from Providencia)

Maryland
Solomon’s Island Yacht Club – Solomon’s Island
Attman’s Deli – Baltimore
Hamden neighborhood and Grano Pasta Bar – Baltimore
Thames Street Oyster House – Baltimore
Living Classrooms Marina – Baltimore
B and O Rail Museum – Baltimore
Havre de Grace
Vineyard Wine Bar – Havre de Grace