After the Rendezvous, Adagio cruised south for four days to Pickwick Lake and then down the Tennessee-Tombigbee River to our home port of...

After leaving Paducah, Kentucky, we made our way up the Ohio River and down the Cumberland River to Paris Landing Marina near Buchanan,...

The Lewis and Clark expedition was 1804-06 - not 1904-06. Sorry about the typo!

A bronze statue in Paducah, Kentucky states that in 1803, Meriwether Lewis paid $20 for his Newfoundland dog, Seaman, who traveled the...

With thoughts of Huck Finn top of mind, we entered the Mississippi just south of Hannibal, Missouri where the Illinois River meets the...

Judy Garland sang Skip to My Lou, The Trolley Song, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and the title song, Meet Me in St. Louie,...

After bidding farewell to Laura, Eliza, and Leslie in Chicago, Adagio turned once again to the rivers of America’s great heartland - the...

The origins of Chicago's famous nickname vary from the frigid winds that sweep across Lake Michigan into the city's streets, to the...

Southerners are justly proud of our beautiful beaches, but western Michiganders are equally fond of the towering sand dunes and beaches...

Leaving the Straits of Mackinac at the tip of northern Michigan, we turned to port and began the 300-mile journey down Lake Michigan to...