Chicago Tug: River Rats

Old man river keeps moving along. Carrie Rose's final resting place (for the winter that is) is Horizon Marine in Alexandria Bay, NY on the St. Lawrence River. We are staying out of the NY canal system. We decided to skip (at least for now) a trip down Lake Ontario's eastern shore after monitoring its endless west winds.

Thanks to Charlotte's cousin Robert and his wife Carol's generosity in lending us a car we will be leaving from the Syracuse airport. It is an expensive flight to Pellston, MI via Detroit. In Pellston we will board a bus to Mackinaw City and our car. I think we will be home on Sat. or Sun.

At the moment we are in slip 18 at The Thousand Island Club. It is on Wellesley Island across from A-Bay. Not much here except an expensive restaurant, tennis, pool, golf and a gym. Too bad I am not a normal person who would use any of the above. I am not complaining, it is a beautiful spot and it has been a great way to end this part of the cruise.

This is an interesting part of the world. Its heyday was the late 1880's to the Depression. The moneyed people back then were on par with our recent crop of billionaires. They built castles on many of the islands. It is a bit fairy tale like cruising past them. That is if I wasn't busy concentrating on what is happening on the river. I have begun to notice that rivers behave differently than the big bodies of water that I am used to. From lake voyagers we are turning into river rats!