Cruising Destinations

The Boomershines, Blind Faith, and River Mist

Imagine driving your house through a giant bowl of clam chowder—that’s the Illinois River in a thick fog. Our intrepid Great Loopers face a "pea soup" situation where the shore exists only as a rumor and the barges are giant, invisible monsters of the deep. Just when they think the radar is their best friend, a mechanical mystery threatens to leave them drifting. Will the mist lift before they find a permanent home on a sandbar, or is the river about to teach them a cold, damp lesson in humility?