First real day of Looping in the books! We really don’t know what we’re doing. Abilene and other Loopers tried to radio us outside Chicago but we didn’t have our VHF on. Ouch. 

Tied up in Lockport and other lock with, Mark. I was very relieved there was room to tie up to the free wall with 12-15 or so other boats: Cool Change, Oysterland, Camelot, Out of the Blue, Living the Stream, Ablelene, Miss Liberty, Tika, and ?