Last week I promised a history lesson, so here it is. The Trent-Severn Waterway is not for the faint of heart. Connecting Trenton, ON to Port Severn, ON in the Georgian Bay off Lake Huron, it’s 240 miles of rivers, lakes and canals that are shallow, rocky, and sometimes narrow and poorly marked. It also … Read more

After leaving Kingston and spending one night on the hook, we continued our journey, heading west. We were about to embark on one of my favorite parts of the 2015 Loop cruise, the Trent-Severn Waterway. Arriving at Trenton, we were baffled. We couldn’t find the marina. Captain Mark called them and they responded with directions. … Read more

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

When we left New York in our 2015 Great Loop adventure, we entered the rivers of America, and I sighed in relief thinking all would be calm from here on out. Wrong, but let’s go on. The Hudson River is is over 300 miles long and at its widest point is over three miles wide. … Read more