Man Overboard!!!\u00a0 Literally!!!<\/p>\n
We started our day with locking down in Lockport through Locks 35 and 34.\u00a0 Lock 35 was uneventful with me on the bow and Scott and Aiden on the stern.\u00a0 Lock 34 was perfect.\u00a0 Aiden now on the stern, Scott in the Captain’s chair and me on the bow seemed like it would go more smoothly than usual.\u00a0 Well, until I see Scott race out the back, Aiden’s pole in the water and much to my surprise and very scared, soaking wet Aiden on the back of the boat.\u00a0 Apparently the pole got stuck around the lines that are supplied by the canal system.\u00a0 Aiden didn’t let go of the pole until he realized he was going in.\u00a0 Scott sprang to action by pulling down the swim ladder and Aiden had already swam to the back of the boat for stability.\u00a0 I, on the other hand, just started to laugh.\u00a0 Laugh, very hard.\u00a0 I think Aiden will remember this particular lock for a long, long time.<\/p>\n
Traveling down the Erie Canal we pass several little towns.\u00a0 Gasport, known to have had gas discovered in the mid 1850’s and thusly named, Middleport, Medina (a great place to investigate), Knowlesville, Albion (great place to stop and investigate), Holley (with its gazebo and small town atmosphere it would be a great place to investigate), and finally our destination Brockport.\u00a0 Brockport is a cute town, with its small downtown shops, great stopping place at the terminal wall, lots of restaurants and apparently 4th of July fireworks.\u00a0 But, they decided to hold them on the 3rd of July.\u00a0 Who does that?\u00a0 So here we sit on the biggest American holiday there is and find out that we missed the big display by one night.\u00a0 Disappointed.\u00a0 You betcha.\u00a0 And it has started to rain.<\/p>\n
So once again traveling east on this portion of the canal is boring.\u00a0 Very boring, but still all you can do is make the best of it and enjoy the scenery and, of course, the company.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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