Well, I have completed the journey, finished the task, dreamed the dream, accomplished the goal. I have sailed across Kentucky. From Pikeville in the far east to Hickman in the far west by water. I need to look on the map and check the distance, but I estimate it at 750 miles. And it must have been 450 miles across Arkansas in the early nineties, so I have logged well over 1,200 river miles. That's a pretty good achievement I think.

And now it will be time to dream a new dream and set a new goal. I wonder what it will be. Perhaps I will do a circumnavigation of the Chesapeake Bay. That would be interesting and good sailing most of the time. Or I might finish my way down the Mississippi River. My 30 or so miles on it today were quite pleasant. Or I might do the Tom Bigby Waterway on the Tennessee River from Alabama to the Ohio River at the end of Kentucky Lake. Or I could just sail around on Kentucky Lake. Or I could work on the inner coastal waterway. Or I could pick up where I left off and do the Great Circle around the Eastern part of the US up through the Great Lakes and back down the Mississippi. The choices are endless it seems. My only problem is time. There is never enough time. I have had to spread this modest journey over two years and it took a year to sail across Kentucky. But these ventures keep me going, and hey, I like them.

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