Tuesday, May 30th - Trenton, Canada
Exactly 1 month ago today we left Jacksonville. We arrived in Canada on Sunday morning. We’re now in Trenton, Canada - which starts our journey through the Trent-Severn Waterway. We have 240 miles to go with 44 locks. We have been told this is one of the prettiest parts of […]
Saturday, May 28th - Fulton, NY
Untied fairly early. We had 4 locks to do and only about 12 miles to travel. By noon all three boats were pulling into Oswego, NY. This town borders Lake Ontario. It was a relaxed day of cleaning and preparing for the trip across the lake tomorrow. MemoryMaker will […]
Thursday, May 26th – Brewerton, NY
Sunshine…first day we’ve woke up to a completely blue sky, warm temperature and sunshine. As usual woke early. Dave planned that we parked on the state dock near a marina that has a Volvo service center. We now have a little over 100 hours on the engine and he wanted […]
Monday, May 23rd - Waterford, NY
Plans changed quickly. Didn’t make the grocery. As we were uploading pictures, Suzanne (Ruff-N-It) came in and said Gary’s nose had stopped bleeding and they were ready to go to try to beat some of the weather. So, we hurriedly untied and set out to do the step locks […]
Monday, May 23
Partly cloudy this a.m. They are giving cold (40’s) damp weather for the next 5-6 days. Guess we’ll head for the grocery store and restock. Then planning to start the locking process. The first is a series of 5 locks and will take 2-3 hours…hope to get all that done before it rains. […]
Saturday, May 21th
Late night on Friday…Amanda and Dave came by and took us to Arthur’s Steak in Hoboken, NJ. We all four ordered 24 oz. steaks…Little Amanda says, I always eat the entire steak…convinced us to try it….wrong thing to do, oh well, no way we could eat the whole thing in one setting. If […]
Monday, May 16th – C & D Canal
Dave was up at 5:00 a.m. and we were pulling off the dock by 6:15 a.m. The Delaware Bay was a little sloppy, but not as bad as what we’d imagined it could have been. We saw a few more large ships – a dozen or so, but […]
Sunday, May 15th – Bear, Delaware
Really enjoyed Baltimore. Caught the Preakness Parada on Saturday and happened upon Lexington Market…one of the neatest food court/malls that we had ever seen. Cookies, danish, chickens, fish, seafood, fruits, vegetables, both prepared and unprepared, —-everything from pigs ears, turkey necks to fancy cakes and pies were all available […]
Monday, May 9th – Beaufort NC
Left Beaufort NC mid-morning. Part of our travels on Monday was easy as we had some narrow canals to cruise through; however, we also had to do the Neuse, Pamlico, Pungo and Alligator Rivers – all of which are wider bodies of water. The winds and waves were so hard […]
Had two great days of cruising - covered over 300 miles. Seemed like very long days but we were still into port by 3:30′’ish. Left before 7 a.m. both days. Stayed at Barefoot Landing in North Myrtle Beach SC Saturday night. It was a free tie-up similar to the Landing in Jacksonville, with lots of […]