30 years ago…..Pittsburg to Venice, Fl….wonderful trip…..love rivers👨✈️
jerryf
This is awesome. Doesn’t look like you’re active on YouTube anymore but if you ever get the chance, I’m sure we’d all love to see the rest of the videos of your journey. If you made them
UOVDrummer
And he stopped at the Ironton, Ohio marina for quite a while. And yes, I have lived practically on the banks of the Ohio river my entire life of 75 years, and have seen a shanty boat before, but it was around 50 years ago when I saw the last one!
elandan
Best video Ive seen on youtube this week .Really enjoyed .
newmanoutdoors
As a boy, Col Kurtz once went down that river.
Janko
I live where the St Croix and Mississippi meet and love watching this. Maybe .... well I can dream, right?
suzanneelliott
You mentioned Harlan Hubbard early in your video. At around 2:50 in your video, where your shantyboat is cruising past that long industrial building with the green stripe near the roof, and that bridge (Interstate 275) is just a little downstream? Where that bridge leaves the left bank, (the Kentucky side), is right about where Harlan and Annie Hubbard built their shantyboat. Also, just downstream a hundred yards or so, is a cylindrical foundation emerging from the water, also on the Kentucky side. That is all that's left of the "Whirly", which was a crane on a turntable, that was used to lift logs that were floated down the river in big rafts, and load the logs onto railroad cars. That was also mentioned in "Shantyboat".
The actual site of where Harlan Hubbard and his wife built their shantyboat is now buried under the fill on which the I-275 roadway was built.
tpelle
I grew up on the Ohio river. She gives you peace but will take your life the instant you turn your back on her.
miller-clem
You should meet my Mother at Shawneetown. Raised on the river and lived on one. She is 89.
randyvickery
Love this. We're gearing up to live full time ona boat. Don't know what yet even an AWESOME shanty etc. Proctorville ohio here and looking for any advice & help.
blackbeardsailing
So happy to subscribe, wife retiring in 5 years. Plan is spend a year building and a year on the Grand Tour, maybe 2yr. Then settle down. Asked the wife if it was okay to go for a year after our 30 years marriage, she said "as long as you stay in touch"....NP Guys year out !!!
MarkLawsonYK
I live NE of Pittsburgh a little and want to go at least Ohio river tennessee river mobile bay maybe america's great loop. How did you provision along you trip and any tips would be great.
MrEveready
i have watched your video about 3 times now and we are trying to get a houseboat about 60 ft and travel the rivers with 6 dogs and 3 goats and do youtube series on it
ErnestLingerfelt
I'm from wintersville, ohio River Rat Cross Creek 🤙
Hardtohandle
hey Wes when are you going to make some more youtube videos?
rickwarner
To Wes: Could someone please name all the bridges. I'm an old Ohio-River-Rat, and I cannot recognize the new bridges, new highways, new buildings, along the OHIO.
