I still haven't gotten around to finishing posts from the 2012 season, and here we are shoving off today. We had our last minute repairs and maintenance to do, and were ready to go around the 15th of April, when it turned cold and rainy, and continued until yesterday afternoon. We're getting underway this morning, taking advantage of a break in the weather, but we expect thunderstorms this afternoon, so we will tie off somewhere along this canal, hopefully for a quiet night in a rural setting. This year's plans are to travel up the Canal du Nivernais, perhaps into the heart of Paris, perhaps along the Marne River into the Champagne region, back down either the Champagne a Bourgogne canal, or the Canal du Bourgogne, part of which we cruised last summer. That will take us to the Canal du Centre in the late summer, early fall, and back down to the Canal Roanne a Digoin to the Port of Roanne, where we will leave Alouette winterized in her slip, and return to the US for a few months of winter sunshine in Tucson. We now have smart phones, so I will be able to do some quick posts along the way, with pictures.
