Week in Oswego
We spent the week (Sunday evening through Friday morning) working and hanging out in Oswego. Our memory was that it was a cute tourist town, from the couple days we spent here on our loop. It turned out to be a little sleepier than we remembered, which is interesting given that we last visited just...
Perth
We'd stopped at this small side trip off the Rideau, the Tay Canal, because we'd met some boaters a few days ago coming the other way on the Rideau that suggested doing a dinghy trip up the river all the way into Perth. So why not? It's Saturday and we haven't had a good dinghy adventure in a while....
A Second Exciting Ottawa Day
Saturday night, we'd hatched plans to do an escape room then go do some shopping (Costco, groceries, and possibly some other things). We'd decided to move from the wall down to Dow's Lake to get us through the time-restricted bridge while it's the weekend and easy. Locks and bridges don't open in t...
Two Walking Tours of Ottawa
Hannah and I have been doing walking tours of cities more and more often, when we need some basic context to start understanding the history of a city/region/etc., and can then layer on more things from museums/etc. afterward. So, when we got to Ottawa, we proposed doing the same here, and Inquest w...
Repairing a leaky roof
While going north on the last day of our trip up the Richelieu, we got waked pretty bad by some passing express cruisers, and water started pouring out of the ceiling onto the helm. We'd had a similar problem last year that we traced down to needing to re-seal a spot on the roof of the boat where En...