July 20. Day 15 on trip When we woke this morning, it was 74 heavenly degrees. We left at 755am to get as far as we could today without killing ourselves. The excitement I’ll tell you about has to do with S/V Equinocci, a Swan 47′ or 50′ sailboat. They were on the wall just […]
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Just wanted to let everyone know that we are ok after the thunderstorms came through, tied up at the dock and safe. Hope everyone is ok too.
This morning we woke to relative coolness, but still too hot for Phil to make coffee so we went walking in town and came across Flashback Cafe. Here is a panoramic of the interior. There we met Laura and Ken. Ken was born in Cleveland area, moved to Arizona as a young child. They have […]
Thursday, July 18 1 week 6 days into trip. We woke at 6am at first light, and cast off Lock 25’s walls at 639am. We wanted to get an early start to see if we could cross Oneida Lake before the higher winds came which are expected tomorrow and Saturday. Last night Lorraine put her […]
Phil woke Lorraine this morning about 640am and we cast off from the dock 656am, ahead of schedule. It started off warm and we reached our first lock just after it opened at 801am in Macedon. It has the unfortunate reputation for the walls being the worse in the canal. We don’t have any more […]
Tuesday, July 17 We woke and went to Riki’s restaurant for breakfast. We each had their pancake special of 2 eggs, 2 pancakes and either 2 sausage links or 2 slices of bacon. Afterwards, we took some of the walking tour ending up at the cemetery and walking home along the canal. Pat picked us […]
We started out today with our ultimate destination to be Fairport, but we changed our mind during the day to stay at Spencerport, changed it back again after talking to my sister-in-law, to getting to Fairport. We left Holley docks at 815am after I talked with Melissa, daughter of S/V Senior Moment. She lives in […]
We had a relaxing start to our day, not leaving Lockport until 824am. We entered Lock 35 and immediately went into Lock 34, the first 2 locks in the Western part of the Erie Canal. Phil paid for a 10 day pass which is $37.50. It’s pretty amazing how quickly the water empties out of […]
Where we docked, it feels isolated, but in truth it isn’t as we found out last night when at 2-3am some people were close by and talking LOUDLY, enough to wake me up but not enough to really hear what they were saying. Don’t they know that we are trying to sleep? We had to […]
This morning in Tonawanda, we had a treat of bacon and eggs and toast for breakfast. We looked around to see what restaurants are in the area, but decided to manage our budget and not eat out. Phil said the food was better than a restaurant, so Lorraine was happy! We walked to the Post […]
Travels with the Dolsen’s 