info on motor home river barge trips

Check out the rental canal boats. They are slow and easy to learn (the charter companies give them over to newbies all the time).

Another option is the French canal system which has lots of rental options. We are in the process of selling our current boat and picking up a different one in Europe. Once everything is settled, we intend to head up from the Barcelona area up into the French canals.

sounds like you have the best of both worlds.....Been an RV-er for over 30 years...class C's, A's and a trailer we bought for a trip to Alaska. Never had a boat though. I thought a river barge trip would be a great adventure, but don't think I'm up for the Amazon !! For me that would be like scuba diving in the everglades ! Spice 39

Having run the river system in our boat, I would say the Mississippi as described in the link would be pretty boring. South of St. Louis, much of it is manmade embankments with few places to stop. We ran from Chicago on the Illinois, then the Mississippi to the Ohio to the Tennessee to the Tom Biggbie at Mobile. The Mississippi section was mostly just about getting thru it. The rest was much more interesting with locks, towns and other places to stop.

If you aren't dead set on taking the RV, consider the Eire Canal. You can rent canal boats or head up to Canada for the Trent-Severn Canal where you can also rent boats.

On the more extreme end, I've heard of barging the RV's on the Amazon.

I always wanted to do that trip, but they ended it after 911.

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Looks like the government shut this down. He must have forgot to pay the right people, or missed a payment. We would love to see this type of tour again.

Google search turned this up: click here

and here: click here.

I have no idea how this all works, except what I've seen on these sites.