Great Loop Side Trips: 20 Cruising Adventures on Eastern North America's Waterways
A former teacher and naturalist, Ron Stob is a travel writer and photographer who has written outdoor features for newspapers and magazines for many years. His books include three Back Roads books on travel along California's central coast. He co-authored  Honey, Let's Get a Boat... which with his wife, Eva, who was the instigator for the Great Loop Cruise and there is little doubt that her hand is on the tiller for the side trips that followed. After moving from California's Central Coast to the Little Tennessee River in East Tennessee, they purchased a 25-foot trailerable cruiser which they named Li'l Looper. It was in this boat that they cruised the side trips covered in their newest book. Together they write and photograph for numerous boating and travel magazines. The Stobs are founders and former directors of America's Great Loop Cruisers'  Association (greatloop.org), an organization formed in 1999 and dedicated to providing information on the Great Loop Cruise and Side Trips.