Days Events:

Wx - cloudy with possible sun in afternoon, 59/69, winds NNE 5.

Photos - the Riveredge Resort with a NW view; built about 1988 and its age is starting to show; view NW along the hotel out to the Bay and the St.Lawrence R; another balcony view SW of the Riveredge harbor; a most important one which notes the avenue named for the Admiral, and our rental SUV Equinox; a Horizon warehouse, on Hwy 12, the sign/front office building attached to a 2-stall shop and a much bigger warehouse, with a tractor-trailer depositing a boat deep in buildings bowel; outside a smaller truck attached to trailer with a 'smaller' boat [26'??]; also an escort truck to accompany each trailer movement; the boat ramp at the Keewaydin State Park; a couple showing D.A. on the service dock!! I had just been there this a.m. so it was serendipitous as they piloted her over to the service area and will be hauled out today or tomorrow; also shows the oil suction/fill hose they use. One of Church St, [main one in the village] looking NW toward the hospital [on the river]; and the catholic church from our balcony, with morning fog over the marina by the hotel.

Admirals Desk: First night on solid ground. Unfortunately, and probably to be expected, things are still constantly swaying for me. It's going to take a while. I have a hair appt. this pm. I decided it couldn't be any worse than the last cut!! There is a salon in the hotel. Masks required and only one client at a time. Update on the haircut. A good outcome!! A very nice, simple blow and go style. 😊😊😊 I definitely looked better coming out than I did going in! We're really looking forward to getting home. Once we realized how close we were to the end of this part of the journey the more we wanted to be home. And this area is too spectacular to rush thru. We are already looking forward to spring and the next part of our adventure. Hopefully the covid restrictions will all be gone. Room service again tonight. I could get used to this!😁😁 On the road tomorrow so probably McDonalds. Take care.

Covid - everyone here is compliant regarding masking - all are emphatic; everyone inside wears a mask and stays close to 6' apart. Impressive.

Departure Preparations: Finished turning off all electrical circuits except for ignition; drained hot water tank and confirmed fresh water ones empty also; disconnected and stored water hose; picked up the last things to bring home with us.

Generator sound insulation pad loose- found some 3M multipurpose adhesive spray [along with of course a few other things - can't just buy one thing] at a great ACE Hardware store; since D.A. already at service dock, will have to wait till spring.

Other Boat stuff - bought a couple of 'Loop Line Hangers' at Horizon's store - I was the only one in there except for Carol, the manager; we had a great chat about the Horizon operation [see below]; also had to buy a chamois mop head attachment for my SureHold brush - hopefully I'll be more compulsive now about wiping it down after a rain or heavy dew.

Horizon Marina stats - they have 8 warehouses, with 3 which cater to the larger boats [to avoid cutting power/phone lines, etc]; they have 8 large trailers to haul-out an average 220 boats for storage each fall and are done within a few weeks of now; half of them have oil/filter servicing, which is done on their efficiency dock at the Thous.Is.Club site; the boss, Mike, who has a Captains License, pilots 99% of the boats from their slip to the servicing dock where the mechanics do the oil changes, etc; that takes a few hours at most, then later that day or the next to the State Park across the river, where a tractor-trailer unit pulls the boat to the warehouse; a 'boat-taxi' takes Mike back to the T.I.C. marina to get the next boat, while someone else is helping the tractor to put the boat on tripod stands. [see photo] The non-service work is done over the winter; they will start in one building to complete all the boats requiring whatever, then go on to the next building. The batteries are charged on a rotating schedule about every 2 months. They start the reverse process mid-late April, depending when the ice is off the river and put each boat back in a slip connected to power, etc. All boats are in the water by May 15. We have complete faith now in Horizon to look after our water-baby.

Tomorrow: We now leave for home. Decided that since there was nothing else to do here re the boat or tourism - plus we are homesick - that we would depart earlier than planned. Our route is down I-81 to Knoxville, than I-75 to Chattanooga, and finally US 72 to Florence -- only 3 highways over 18 hours away. Will stop likely twice en route; have decided to be really adventuresome and won't book a hotel until close to reaching the end of each day and making a decision [not normally in my comfort zone].

The admiral forced me to buy some Red Twizzlers and some Australian Black Licorice for the car trip! Forced me. So I took it upon my own authority to buy some Fig Newtons - the fruit will compensate for the sugar in the licorice. (Admiral -- did not force him to buy Guinness Draft! at a drug store!!) So, continue to stay safe please.

Comments:

Dd - 10 Sep 2020: Safe journey home.

Ernie R - 10 Sep 2020: Sounds like we are looping on dry land now! Safe trip!! Great pictures and stats!

Duane - 10 Sep 2020: Rob, you jogged my memory.....As a kid we would get fig newtons by the milk pail from McCormicks Biscuits in London Ont. A near by farmer would truck all the cull bakery products home to his farm for feeding his pigs. He would often stop at our place and we would fill our milk pail with all sorts of goodies for after school snacks. Now I have to go to the store with my mask and see if I can buy some. They were Sooooo Good Have a safe trip home.

Dave N. - 10 Sep 2020: Great experience for you both and we really enjoyed following you along the route. Have a great trip home and will drop you an e-mail when you get back