Month: August 2026

Looking back on the 2015 Great Loop cruise, I admit I wasn’t looking forward to entering the Great Lakes. Surprise, right? Ms. Anxiety arranged her chocolate, swallowed her fears, and away we went on a day that was much better than the one before. We’d gone through several locks to get to the end of … Read more

We didn’t see any mules when we left Waterford and traveled through the Erie Canal system in Upstate New York in 2015. But we saw several places where the original canal is preserved and where mules did pull boats. Yet the feeling we were cruising through history prevailed all the way to the Oswego Canal … Read more