Arctic Songbird Adventures

A great day with temps in the mid 70's and only a few boats on the canal. We have 17 locks to go until Waterford, where we enter the Hudson River. We biked 5.5 miles around Little Falls and explored the historic building section, as well as several war monuments and local memorials honoring fire and law officials. The boater facilities are great with laundry, hot showers, ice, and more. We met a neat man that is on his third bike ride across the country....and he is 65! He is camping in his tent along the canal and is planning on going to church with us tomorrow. What an inspiration! Another great day!

Our first day going uphill in the locks so that was a bit different. We also went across 30 mile long Lake Oneida which was like a mini ocean. More boats are beginning to appear as we get to Memorial Day weekend. We saw a hand-built boat about 25-28 feet in length with a home port of Wasilla, AK and it was parked at a B&B. I called the number and had a nice chat and learned the history of the boat. It has been around the Great Loop twice and explored thousands of miles of the countries waterways. Very impressive! We finally passed the beer barge we have been hearing about for days. Huge beer storage tanks too big to transport on the highway were being shipped on the Erie! We ended up in Rome, NY and had a well deserved dinner out at a neat place called Coal Charlie's. The Tollhouse Pie with ice cream was "scrump"! We needed to walk off those extra 1000 calories so we made it to Fort Stanwix. We met Major George Bray and learned a lifetime of facts about the French Ind...