Day 89 – Friday, September 10, 2010

089°33.435’ W
40°44.950’ N
Peoria Heights, Illinois (IVY Club – Day 3)

Today was another quiet day in Peoria. After washing the bugs off the boat in the morning we went shopping with the Flints. Barb Flint borrowed a car from a friend and took Barb and I on a tour of Peoria and Peoria Heights. Barb went to Bradley and worked here after grad school for about seven years. We stopped for lunch at the local Stake and Shake ---- dinning at its best!

On return to the boat I attempted to replace the regulator that had been special ordered and to no ones surprise it didn’t fit! I guess its time to contact the manufacturer of the regulator and see why they changed the physical size of the unit!

Later in the afternoon the Gibson’s arrived from work and happy hour began. While there some old boating friends from this area Marcia and Bill Cannon showed up. It’s always great fun to see them.

Regarding our schedule, it appears that we won’t get out of here until Sunday morning. If we did leave Saturday there wasn’t any place to dock and get fuel. As it stands now we have a place to dock Sunday evening at the Tall Timbers Marina in Havana, Illinois and take on enough fuel to get to Grafton, Illinois a few days later. Barb and I have docked at Tall Timbers before as its one of the nicest marinas on the Illinois River.