I am not certain how my new setting on Facebook will work, but for some reason I can't get on my blog account right now.. I’m chasing it down. Any way this may work better. We had a good day yesterday. We stayed on board until mid afternoon then Langdon,Craig and I walked up the street in search of more shirts for Craig. We were on a mission. We wanted to find a bakery so we could have desert for dinner. (We had invited Dozier,Nancy, and Gardiner Hasty to eat duck casserole with us on the boat.) On our way back from our mission, IT STARTED RAINING. A lot- with thunder and lightning to go with it. It was going to last a while. Our only real option was to walk back to the boat. I called Nancy to give them an out if they didn't want to brave the weather. No way. They were committed. We enjoyed having them and they loved duck casserole.
We got out of New York and what a difference a few miles up the Hudson makes. Craig,Langdon and I thought we had missed the mountains this year. Not true. The scenery is lush with rolling hills , small mountains in the distance and wide open spaces. Our trip up the river was much smoother than being parked at the dock in New York
. It is hard to describe the motion we had. There were water taxis,barges, ferries and just other boats that sent their wake our way. The docks were not secured by pilings because there are subways that run under the river. The waves would roll in under the dock and the feeling was like riding a bucking horse after three glasses of wine. None of us could walk a straight line. Every time I would get Dooley off the boat, it was a test of balance. Not only was the dock rocking but also the boat. We are now up the river in Newberg, New York. This is going to be a beautiful part of the trip.












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