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Boating Adventures with Charles and Kay Mortimer
Join us on the Adagio as we travel The Great Loop - a 6,000-mile nautical journey around the eastern third of the United States. Â
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Charles and Kay Mortimer's Boating Adventures on The Great Loop
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
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Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
Big Chute
The penultimate finale to our voyage through the Trent-Severn Waterway was the Big Chute Marine Railway at Lock 44. We had been looking...
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Jul 13, 20222 min read
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Loonies, Toonies, and Canada Day
Image Source: Britannica Originally settled by the French, Canada came under British control after the French and Indian War in 1763. ...
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Jul 5, 20222 min read
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Peterborough Lock
At Lock 21 on the Trent Severn sits the massive Peterborough Lock, the largest lift lock in the world. Captain Charles has been watching...
Kay
Jul 4, 20221 min read
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Canada’s Erie Canal
The Trent Severn Waterway begins at Trenton on Lake Ontario and continues northwesterly for 240 miles to the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron. ...
Kay
Jul 4, 20221 min read
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Oh, Canada!
Adagio entered Canada just south of the St. Lawrence Seaway at Kingston, Ontario. First settled by the French in the early 1600's,...
Kay
Jun 26, 20221 min read
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Thousand Island - Not Just a Salad Dressing
Do you remember the days before the plethora of vinaigrettes and honey mustards when there were only three or four salad dressings from...
Kay
Jun 24, 20222 min read
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Niagara!
A thunderous roar and a column of mist rising far above the rocky cliffs of the Niagara River portend the iconic wonder that is Niagara...
Kay
Jun 23, 20222 min read
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Finger Lakes
To keep things easy for a few days after the ICU excursion, we decided to tour New York's Finger Lakes by car. Carved by glaciers over...
Kay
Jun 23, 20222 min read
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Side Trip to the ICU
Shortly after finishing the Erie Canal, I came down with Covid. Thankfully it was a mild case, and, while I'm grateful to have had a...
Kay
Jun 21, 20222 min read
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"Low Bridge, Everybody Down...!"
"Low Bridge, Everybody Down...Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal," goes the refrain from the Erie Canal Song, composed in 1905 by Thomas...
Kay
Jun 21, 20221 min read
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Lake Placid and the Adirondacks
With Adagio docked in Troy, New York, the Hughes and the Mortimers set out by car to tour the Adirondack Mountains north of Albany. At...
Kay
Jun 5, 20221 min read
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The River That Flows Both Ways
Searching for a shorter route to India In 1609, Dutch explorer Henry Hudson sailed from the Atlantic coast into a beautiful valley formed...
Kay
Jun 1, 20221 min read
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Kykuit and Union Church
Because of its proximity to New York City, the lower Hudson River Valley features a diverse spectrum of architecture ranging from the...
Kay
May 29, 20221 min read
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Cadets, Culinary Arts, and Headless Horsemen
After bidding Peter and Andrea farewell, we returned by train to Croton-on-Hudson, a lovely village 35 miles north of Manhattan. Using...
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May 28, 20222 min read
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Museum-Hopping in NYC
With Adagio securely docked about 35 miles north of Manhattan in Croton-on-Hudson, we spent three days in NYC with Laura's in-laws, Peter...
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May 27, 20221 min read
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9/11 Memorial
Perhaps no other event in our lifetime has so shattered our sense of security as the attack on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center...
Kay
May 27, 20222 min read
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Statue of Liberty
After anchoring off the coast of nearby New Jersey, we cruised under the Verrazzano Bridge into New York Harbor. Thick morning fog and...
Kay
May 26, 20222 min read
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Atlantic City to New York
While Kay returned to Jackson for a weekend baby shower, Adagio and Dashaway, our Houston friends' boat, found a weather window to cruise...
Kay
May 18, 20221 min read
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Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
From Annapolis Adagio cruised to Haver de Grace, Maryland on the far northern shore of Chesapeake Bay and then east through the 14-mile...
Kay
May 18, 20222 min read
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Annapolis
Adagio docked for a few days in Annapolis, Maryland where we toured the city's charming colonial streets and the US Naval Academy. ...
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May 5, 20221 min read
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