September 17, 2012 Day 129 Peoria, IL Total miles to date: 2596.0
Early morning fog! |
Yes, our fourth night in Peoria!
This is getting redundant. Other Loopers, The Zone and Why Knot left
by mid-morning after the fog cleared and once again we were alone. But by late afternoon, Attitude Changer and Bama
Belle had arrived to take their place.
The Riverfront area is
considerably quiet today since it is Monday.
Joyce did some reading to pass the time. When the stairs are up to the
engine room, access to the galley is blocked, which was the case most of the
day.
In the meantime, Bill
spent the day in the engine room with the Caterpillar mechanic who diagnosed
our “starboard engine with the white smoke problem”. (You can tell which one of
us writes the blog!) After ruling out some potential causes, he discovered it
was a bad gasket – not a good thing to hear – we were hoping for something
minor! Hopefully the parts are available
and they can get everything replaced soon.
We will definitely be here again tomorrow and maybe Wednesday.
We had dinner on board
(frozen pizza does come in handy sometimes!) and watched television, something
we have done very little of since we have been on the Loop.