Day 20 - August 9^th

Departed the Albany Yacht Club for Lock 1 at Troy to begin our journey back up the Erie Canal.  The climb of 180 feet from the Hudson to Lock 6 only took 2 hours 35 minutes in the heat of 92.8 degrees F, what a brutal day for locking. Along the way we passed the ongoing dredging operations in the Erie. Since the weather has been so very hot we all decided that power was the prerequisite for tonight so we pushed on past Lock 10 to stay in Amsterdam once again. We thought we can put up with the train noise as long as we can have some air conditioning. Being late in the day again once we stopped travelling we decided to do the restaurant dinner and had a great meal in the River Link Cafe. A few rain showers and a bit of lightning has helped cool the evening off, and we hope for a pleasant day tomorrow to travel to Little Falls and maybe a lunch stop in Herkimer.

I am also adding a few photos from our Vintage Aircraft Flight and the highly successful cribbage game night, where the competition believed that style would outperform skill, did I mention that Cathie and I won, once again proving skill always triumphs. Anne embellished our evening with a display of her well found purchases so far on the trip.

Soon it will be time to start looking for Valvtect again, loving the red diesel.