Well, we've pushed back our departure date from the original plan of May 15 about two weeks because of a medical issue. I was recently diagnosed with melanoma and needed to have some bits and pieces removed. Thankfully, none of the now missing pieces diminish my movie star good looks nor winning personality. The icing on the cake is that the biopsies came back clean. However, my doc didn't want me fooling around on the boat until he removed the stitches, hence the delay. He is such a spoil sport. To those of you who already knew about this, thanks for your support. To those who didn't, be thankful I didn't bother you with this.

We want to get to Lake Ontario by about June 20th for a family reunion so we'll plan fewer lay days in the first segment of the trip. We've done this part of the trip in reverse (north to south) in two weeks, so we we remain cautiously optimistic we can do it in three weeks. The attached map shows this part of the trip.



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Susan & Mike will be taking Temptation north from Chesapeake Bay, up the Hudson River & Erie Canal, through the Great Lakes and down the western rivers to the Gulf of Mexico. Temptation's new home will be St. Petersburg, Florida. Temptation has already travelled from St. Petersburg to Chesapeake Bay via the East Coast. The entire trip is known as America's Great Loop.