Sunday – Day 51 – 9/21/08The weather today has been unique – dark, overcast, misting on and off most of the day with the sun coming out just before sunset! We moved from one lock to another in less than perfect conditions. We locked up one additional lock on the Erie Canal today, that’s a total of eight locks today.
We then decided to stay at Winter Harbor Marina in Brewerton, NY. I think this is the largest inside heated boat storage facility on the east coast. This place is very impressive to see, considering where it’s located, in the middle of nowhere! For us to store our boat here for the winter we would have had to have our contract signed and paid for prior to July 15th. Now that’s a good business to be in! If I could have, I would have wintered over here!
Tomorrow we will continue to move east on the Erie Canal after crossing Oneida Lake. The east half of the Erie Canal is supposed to be different than the west half which is unpopulated and is true to the original canal in its hay day. We have noticed a major difference with the amount of buildings, bridges and people. I guess that’s progress! Every day we can see the trees beginning to turn to their fall colors. We hope that our timing is good and we have the opportunity to see the fall colors of New England!
