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June 17: Champlain canal system
If you are not actually traveling on the Hudson and the canal systems, I don’t think you can appreciate the history and how important they were. The canals were how everything got shipped to and from the western part of the US back in the day. They were the I95 and all the other trucking…
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June 14: First Contact
Left NYC harbor, passed Manhattan and continued up the Hudson, stopping at Croton on Hudson and Kingston. Fun fact: the Hudson is tidal (4-5 ft tide) ALL the way up to Troy!!! Like a hundred and fifty miles up and there’s a friggin’ tide. It’s interesting, but also important, because when traveling at 7 mph,…
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June 9: The first few days
So we have three days under our belt, but this was really the first day that the magnitude of what we are doing has hit me. The first night we went to Block Island, but we do that all the time in the summer, and we were hurting from our send-off the previous night, so…
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June 5: Send-off festivity and departure
We want to thank everyone who came last Saturday for our send-off festivity. Enjoy some pictures of the event and never-seen-before-footage of the actual Great Loop departure itself. The pictures include ALMOST everyone that was there with some unfortunate omissions, but regardless of whether you are pictured or not, Debbie and I can safely say…
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May 25… Introduction to our blog
If you’re reading this, then you must already know Debbie and me, so I’ll spare you all the boring background nonsense that so often clutters these kinds of blogs. Maybe if you’re lucky, I’ll write an origin-blog along the way, like Wolverine or Hannibal Lector, because people like flashbacks, but for now, you only need to…