Hundreds of people each year undertake the Great Loop: A circumnavigation of the eastern United States that begins in Lake Michigan, proceeds down the Mississippi River, lays over for the winter in the Florida Keys, then returns up the Atlantic coast to either the Erie Canal or the St. Laurence Seaway leading back to the Great Lakes basin. One of the biggest routing questions for Loopers is the Atlantic part: offshore, or Intracoastal Waterway? Writer Bio
