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Old 07-07-2020, 02:06 PM   #15
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So you did it in one year? Did you feel you missed a lot?
Yes, but at that time we lived aboard and cruised ahead of the cold weather. We choose not to do the Rideau Canal or the west side of Lake Michigan. We did a week in Myrtle Beach, Annapolis and Baltimore. In Baltimore we took the commuters train into the capital and also visited New York city by train from Terri-town on the Hudson river. We visited both the Naval Academy and West Point. We also spent several weeks on the Erie And Trent Severn Canals. We visited Mackinaw Island, my wife said the Grand Hotel was a must see. We visited Chicago with friends who lived near a marina we stayed at on the Illinois river. Seeing it all for us would have been to busy. As I mentioned are only schedule was to be off the Great Lakes by Labor Day because of the usual bad weather that comes in each year at that time. It was for us a relaxed pace, we collected about fifty boat cards from fellow loopers, several we still corespondent with.
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