Storing the boat and heading home is always a bittersweet occasion. We are glad to be returning to family and friends in Kansas....it has been a long time. But we are also more than a little sad to be leaving our boating friends. We have sooooo enjoyed being in the slip next to Susan and Carolyn aboard the Sojourner in Brewerton. They plan to head south after Labor Day and have announced that they are headed to Norfolk to put their boat on the market. So it is hard to say when and if we'll catch up with them again. They left St Charles just a bit before us two years ago...we met them at Hoppies Marina and spent that first night on the Mississippi in a spot just in front of them. Two novice boats headed down a flooding Mississippi...pretty exciting stuff. They were there to greet us when we finally arrived with BIG BERTHA at Grand Rivers, Kentucky. We've sure enjoyed hop-scotching with them ....wish them great luck at selling and finding another boat...May we meet again somewhere sometime....