Last Chance ... A Two Year Journey

Leaving the Great Lakes for a Caribbean/Pacific adventure

26 June 2020 | Beaver Island
24 June 2020 | Mackinac Island
21 June 2020 | Off Racine
02 May 2020 | Larsen Marine
17 August 2019 | Half way across the lake and back
20 July 2019 | Sturgeon Bay, WI
15 July 2019 | Start of Hook Race off Racine, Wi
24 June 2019 | Mackinac Island
16 June 2019 | Waukegan Harbor
30 May 2019 | Somewhere off Waukegan
29 April 2019 | Waukegan, IL
14 February 2019 | George Town, Exumas
12 February 2019 | Great Galliot Cay
11 February 2019 | Sampson Cay, Exumas, Bahamas
09 February 2019 | Big Majors Spot
08 February 2019 | Near Midway Airport, Chicago
01 January 2019 | Larsen Marine
19 November 2018 | Hanover Park, IL

9/11 Memorial and museum

10 September 2017 | 9/11 Memorial
Sunny and cool
Today was spent at the 9/11 memorial and museum. It is easy to spend an entire day there and relive what you saw that day in 2001, and literally go behind the scenes and see so much that you never knew. There is so much there - so much information. It is amazing and so well done.

On the train ride in Staten Island, one stop sounded familiar. I looked up my old address and it turned out the first place I lived after college was in that area and it was only a few miles from where I am staying on the boat now. And then my brother tells me his son works at the World Trade Center in building 4. We were at the WTC both yesterday and today, but that was over the weekend, not a work day.

The girls had a City pass, so they stayed in Manhattan and did some more sightseeing. Roger and I had had enough and it was after 4, so we went back to the boat. Instead of taking Uber from the train station back to the boat, we walked. It was about 3 miles over city streets and bike paths. A pleasant walk, but a long walk.

Ashley goes back home tomorrow. I'm not sure what tomorrow will bring, but soon we will venture out from this place and stick our nose out in the ocean and see what the Atlantic brings. After we first check that all the hurricanes have gone. Irma has greatly changed what my trip will look like and what I imagined it to be. Many of the first places I planned to visit have been destroyed. We will see what the future has in store for me.
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Vessel Name: Last Chance
Vessel Make/Model: Islander 36 (1979)
Hailing Port: Waukegan, Illinois
Last Chance's Photos - Main
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Created 1 February 2019
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Created 22 July 2018
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Created 8 April 2018
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Created 22 January 2018
Traveling down the Chesapeake and the East Coast
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Created 11 September 2017
Erie Canal and Hudson River
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Created 18 August 2017
Great Lakes part of the journey.
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Created 15 July 2017
Boat prep and races prior to departure
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Created 14 June 2017