The NEW plan

At Chicago, we will enter the Calumet Sanitary Bypass which connects Lake Michigan with the Illinois River. The Illinois will lead us to the Mississippi River just north of St. Louis. As the backbone waterway of America, it will be exciting to transverse a portion of the Mighty Mississippi. At Cairo, Illinois we will leave the Mississippi and enter the Ohio River for a short run north and east. We will divert into the Cumberland River at Smithfield, Kentucky which eventually connects us with Kentucky Lake.
From there we enter into the Tenn-Tom Waterway which is an interconnected series of Rivers: the Tennessee, a connecting canal to the Tombigbee Creek which becomes the Tombigbee River, the Lower Black Warrior River, and lastly the Mobile River to Mobile AL.
This will bring us into the Golf of Mexico to YANKEETOWN, FL.