Day's 17 - 19 Little Falls to Utica Start 8:00 am E End 11:50 am Underway 3:12 hours Locks - 3 Distance 17.7 Av Speed 5 knots On Tuesday we traveled from Little Falls, NY to Utica NY. It was a short travel day. Other than 3 several short periods of heavy rain, it was a nice day to travel. We did get lucky that it did not rain while we were in the locks. (What that meant was only I got rained on. Angel goes down below when it is raining.) We can en...

Todays Trip Day 17 Start 9:10am End 3:50 pm Underway 3 hours Locks - 4 Distance 16.7 Av Speed 5.7 This trip was a little different then most of our trips because we did not know where we were going to stop for the night, and we had a stop we wanted to make in the middle of the trip. We did have a couple of possible places to spend the night in mind. The first stop was shortly after we left Amsterdam, to go see the museum at Fort Plain NY. There was ...

Todays Trip Day 16 Start 8:35am End 12:05 pm Underway 2:45 hours Locks - 3 Distance 19.6 Av Speed 7.2 I am going to change the timing of my post, I have been listing our travel and where we were, then writing about what we did and the last stop. From now on, I am going to wait until we are ready to leave a location, and write every related to that trip. Last night we spent the night at River Park, in Amsterdam. It was a small town, and unfortunal...

Todays Trip Day 15 Start 8:am End 11:20 am Underway 2:25 hours Distance 15 Av Speed 6.3 Yesterday we decided to stop at Mohawk Valley Marina today, we did not travel very far, but stopping here kept our trip close to the 5 hour travel day, that I am trying to keep to. The marina is beautiful, but there are hardly any boats. Maybe 5 or 6 boats, and at leat 25 empty slips. We stopped there because there is a casino, brewery, and wine bar with 1/4 mile of...

Todays Trip Day 13 Start 8:20am End 1:40pm Underway 3:17 hours Distance 16.7 Av Speed 5.1 Today we started the Erie Canal. There are 5 locks with in the first 2 miles of the Erie Canal. These locks are known as the Filght of Five, and raise you 170. Each lock lifts you approximately 35 feet. There is no where to stop between the these locks, and takes about two hours to complete. Lock under the Video tab to see a time lapse video of our trip of both th...