We may have found the cruising paradise of the northern hemisphere, at least from our view point. The Trent Severn is magnificent, well marked with the easiest and best organized locks. The scenery is spectacular and the transit w…
Archive | Guided Discovery RSS feed for this section
Crossing Lake Ontario – Oswego to Trenton Ontario
As explained in the previous article, we arrived in Oswego Monday afternoon (7/16/12). We stayed in Oswego for two days waiting for a weather window to cross Lake Ontario.Lake Ontario is the smallest of the Great Lakes (7,300 square miles as…
The Oswego Canal
At 8:55 AM on Monday morning, we departed Brewerton NY and 90 minutes later we arrived at Three Rivers Junction and the entrance to the Oswego Canal.We took a hard right (north) and traversed 8 locks to Owsego, NY. This segment of the trip was ve…
Navigating on the Erie Canal – Schenectady to Brewerton, NY
I’ve got a mule,Her name is Sal,Fifteen years on the Erie Canal.She’s a good old workerAnd a good old pal,Fifteen years on the Erie Canal.We’ve hauled some barges in our dayFilled with lumber, coal and hayAnd ev’ry inch of the way I knowFrom Albany to …
Now the Erie Canal
Statistics as of today at Schenectady, NY on the Erie Canal: 4,810 Total Miles since beginning of the Great Loop on 10/3/12 4,908 Total Gallons of Diesel Used 34 Total Locks$3.62 Ave…
A busy day
Today (Wednesday), we planned a very agressive day with a drive back to Hyde Park to visit Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s bithplace (Springwood), the FDR Presidential Library and Eleanor Roosevelt’s Val-Kill home followed by a 40 mile …
Chasing the Vanderbilts
Tuesday morning, Kodi and I walked into downtown Poughkeepsie (a 3 mile round trip). The weather was perfectwith temperatures in the low 80s and Kodi was on her best behavior. Kodi poses for a photoDowntown Poughkeepsie itself was …
Coolish day on the Hudson
The temperatures for the past week and a half (i.e., ever since we got here) have been in the 90s EVERY day. Finally, today (July 9), we had a run up the Hudson from Croton to Poughkeepsie with temperatures in the mid 80s and a light wi…
Croton on Hudson Adventures
On Friday, July 6, we drove south about 10 miles to Nyack, NY on the west side of the Hudson River to visit the home of the famous artist Edward Hopper.Edward Hopper was an American realist painter and printmaker who achieved fame in the 1920s for his …
Now the Hudson
We departed Stamford for Croton on Hudson, a town in Westchester County on the east side of the Hudson approximately 44 miles north of NCY, as soon as the waxers completed their work. Our route took us west down Long Island Sound to the East Rive…
