GL: Chicago to St Louis

[Bill Donovan]

Maurice:

It also took us six easy days:

Day 1: Chicago to Joliet, IL (stayed on park wall)
Day 2: Joliet to Ottowa, IL (stayed at Starved Rock Marina)
Day 3: Ottowa to East Peoria, IL (stayed at East Peoria Marina)
Day 4: East Peoria to Beardstown, IL (tied to Logston Tow Services 
barge -- great fun!)
Day 5: Beardstown to Maitland Island, IL (anchored behind Maitland 
Island in Calhoun County)
Day 6: Maitland Island to Alton, IL (stayed at Afton Marina -- excellent spot)

We traveled at 6-7 mph through the water.  Averaged about 6-8 hours 
per day.  Locks are the biggest (littlest?) bottleneck, if any.

You can read all about it in our logs at 
www.IntegrityCruise.com.  Click on Captains Logs.

Enjoy your trip!

Bill and Ruth Donovan
formerly of Integrity


At 08:20 AM 8/23/2007, Lee Kirwan wrote:
>We have a limited number of days to get from Chicago to Alton, 
>Ill.  If you have experience traveling this section, please let me 
>know how many days it took.  We are just looking for an average.
>   Thank you.
>   Maurice Kirwan
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