Day 66 Making our way along the Erie Canal

The total length of the Erie Canal is over 340 miles, we are going to conquer about 160 miles of it. At this point in Little Falls, that's about our half way point. The scenery is different than John and I imagined. John thought it'd be more industrialized. I pictured more historic homes and farmlands since this project was started in 1817. There is a little of all three. Like yesterday, we passed the Herkimer House. With great effort, General Herkimer won the Battle of Oriskany during the Revolutionary War with the help of the infamous Benedict Arnold. His federalist house sits right on the water. Most of the canal is forest and then you can't forget about the trains, which is what put the canal system out of business many decades ago. John was fascinated with them when we started on this adventure, now he hates them. The whistles blow all night and day. Today, he speculated that the engineer's ex-wife must live in this town because he laid on his horn the entire time he passed through here at 3am in the morning. (LOL) We went through 7 locks today, a couple of them were quite a workout. The third picture is a view up from our boat in the biggest lock. The last shot is of the boat in front of us trying to hang on as we rode up 40 feet. As you can see, we are stll traveling with Le Grand Crüe and Gwenhyvar. We sat out tonight with a group of boaters here in the small marina. A great group of people. More canal tomorrow.