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the great loop it's known as the

circumnavigation of eastern North

America by water also referred to as

America's great loop and the Great

Circle Route fourteen hundred nautical

miles

that's the trip that Ryan dad Diego and

myself embarked on today we left TC for

good to embark on a new adventure

excited nervous anxious happy stressed

the definition of a looper on

dictionary.com explains it as a person

or thing that loops something or forms

loops so how do you get from Michigan's

Great Lakes down to the Atlantic Ocean

well stay tuned for season two and we

are going to show you our route will be

a heading half way down Lake Michigan

into the Calumet River into the Illinois

River down the Mississippi River and

into the Gulf of Mexico down to the

Florida Keys

we leave in Traverse City for good right

now what do you think Ryan what was your

favorite part about Traverse City

in a quarter-mile Turismo perform of

this golf course

my favorite part about Traverse City I

think was my job I really liked it I

like telling people I worked with

I mean it's lucky that in ten be

reunited with our Kitty and at our last

shop excited

oh man Oh little kitty so he's feeding

kitty it's got his new candies got his

new toy he's gone apeshit I'll bet

that's got catnip in it I bet it does

that's why he's going crazy

holy mackerel what's up with him we hear

the surger in our last provision

some chicken last provisioning before we

uh no car say bye to my little Buick by

Buick we said goodbye to our family

through our last meal on land they

wished us fair winds and following seas

alright last meal on land pizzas and

beer feet some beers like the best combo

in the entire world

honestly we're taking off

get these down below with his life vest

on not just quite sure what's going on

as we hoisted our 1st May until we

realized that this was our new life and

we loved it we were free in a sense we

had a couple days of great weather where

I got to practice my new song on violin

relax for a bit one past Silverlake sand

dunes today over two thousand square

acres of sand dunes which is an

all-terrain vehicle park and is the only

dunes east of Utah where private

motorized vehicles can be driven from

April 1st to October 31st we also saw

the lighthouse of little points all

where big points ah will we snorkel that

remember that

all right well day one has come and gone

we went from Ludington over to the

little town called

Whitehall great Whitehall

it's just a little town in like the

Muskegon County of Michigan make the

populations like 2700 people yeah we did

about sixty miles today

nice that's not too bad

all right first day I just gotta go just

let me down me and Ryan s team

yeah this is pretty really pretty early

call pulled into Whitehall and anchored

in about 27 foot of water

okay Ryan and Danielle are cooking in

the kitchen we're having potatoes and

some onion in tinfoil with some fresh

herbs from the herb garden back here and

a little all kind all kind of spice

Ryan's like the gourmet cook he's been

cooking for years so we're gonna have

some rice with that and chicken on the

nice little grill we just bought

potatoes are in here thanks Ted kiddies

about to jump overboard under the dingy

relaxed

made chicken with potatoes and rice and

watched captain Ron as we fall asleep

and we woke up to a beautiful sunrise

starting to come up but the wind did

exactly what they said it would do and

had swung into the east so it's gonna be

a nice broad reach sail as we had done

known shorter date today but we've got

beautiful weather for the next 3-4 days

pretty much sunny and light to variable

winds so that's alright

woke up the next morning to some coffee

at about 6:00 or 7:00 a.m. and headed

out for day two

all my

Oh Ryan a nice job when we're in a

channel is to take the mainsail down and

vice versa to put the mainsail up as a

team so that's what we did

we didn't quite make it to South Haven

today we had a southeast wind and we all

had a bit of an uncomfortable ride so we

settled for Grand Haven instead Motor

Sales the hello till we get there I get

took the tiller for a little bit today

and I can kind of feel the sails filling

up with wind so I was school I'm slowly

learning I can feel myself slowly

getting the hang of it all right we just

ran to the gas dad called it you got him

from a nap oh I think we're gonna run

out of gas and I'm gonna do here two

grand help it's a lot quieter at least

oh yeah we got a whole tub of water

crashing over the floor the cat came out

he was all soaking wet transferring a

few grinds over here reeling up yeah

we're thinkin chicken alfredo with our

leftover chicken for tonight but if you

can catch us a salmon maybe we'll have

some Cajun salmon for dinner I'm the

grill I don't know well we still can't

get the engine started running a

completely out of gas hose not probably

not very good for it

so dad hopped in the dinghy

I hope the dinghy close by I hopped in

there you know

Oh saves the day Brian well we haven't

seen the kidney all day today he's been

hiding hiding in his little seasickness

cubby that he found today but uh he's

finally out Brian's and they're cuddling

with him he finally came out of hiding

we were all very excited to seal and

after two full days at sea when we

docked in Grand Haven and so was the

kitty we had a list of jobs to do and

stuff to get since dad was using laundry

soap for dish soap he clearly needed me

on this trip

first time I land in two days feels good

until dollar store in got some good

we're gonna get gas at the marina ice we

got bread a couple other things in

Ryan's backpack alright we're here in

Grand Haven up against the wall back

here and we've got our kitty out here

and people are loving him he's tied to a

pole and then wind falls over here it's

quite a nice little spot lower kind of

like right in town and we can kind of

walk up and do our own thing dad want to

have a beer with a fellow sailor like

Diego's loving it he's loving the grass

we uploaded a new episode at the coffee

shop and even put a small sneak preview

up for a new season we were lucky enough

to get there on a weekend and be able to

see the musical fountain in Grand Haven

as well what do the fountains

yeah it's gonna be great

forgot that I granny have a musical

fountain do you seen this before yes

this is pretty you're gonna this is

pretty cool whoa welcome to you the

Phantom is it across the lake yeah

good evening and welcome to the Grand

Haven musical fountain it's exhilarating

display the water-clerk in music has

been pleasing Grand Haven visitors for

over 50 years

tonight the performance is made possible

through support to the city of Grand

Haven and generous donations by you got

woken up at about 3:00 a.m. by a loud

smash and windfall is crashing against

the wall that we had docked at in Grand

Haven dad was already up so we all

fended off the bow all night in the cold

rain all right we're here in nygren

Haven against the wall and the channels

pushing the waves and really really bad

right now in it wind falls just Rock and

we all kind of got woken up a few times

throughout the night

because we were just rocking against

that wall and we were banging into it a

couple of good times and this boat over

here is banged into it a couple times -

so he's off he's checking on his boat so

we're Manning our stations so we got a

southeast wind so it's gonna be choppy

like it was yesterday

so we left the decision of trying this

morning if we're gonna go or if we're

gonna stay in Grand Haven for another

night and he says let's go so we've got

the kiddies and Dramamine so hopefully

he does a little better than he did

yesterday

and we'll get going so my job basically

when we get moving us to organize

everything make sure nothing is gonna

fall down bathrooms all organized

everything is on many of the counters at

all Kitty's got his Dramamine and her

heading out

where are we gonna try to make it to

today baby

selfie we headed to South Haven today

with the expectation of some bad weather

and when it finally came we were all at

our battle stations until we arrived

with a torn jib

crazy we took one and a half a job and

it said one to two I've really four

hours and so I took one and a half I

feel just not dizzy but

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