Irene has come and gone. Our decision to leave Vermont for the more familiar (and we hoped, safer) environs of Upstate New York proved prescient. We are grateful that we are not stranded in central Vermont amongst the flooding and chaos up there. The very place where we were in Vermont suffered damage from the storm ... parts of the very roads we traveled on to get out of Vermont were flooded and washed away.
We awoke to a beautiful blue sky in Herkimer this morning. The marina master told us the Erie Canal crested at 5:00 AM this morning, just 15 inches below the top of the wall, but was in no danger of overflowing. We began this morning to make plans for the next two weeks or so of our trip. We really want to "do Maine." We want to spend a few days at our friend's camp in Bethel and do touristy things along the coast (ie, visit LL Bean and eat lobster and blueberries). We want to go to Martha's Vineyard for a day. All in good time.
We may have to stay here another day or so, as the New York State Thruway is closed in two places between us and where we want to go. That's the story of this trip of ours ... two steps forward, one step back.
We are just making memories.
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I just love how you take pictures of the sky each day! It's so interesting to know we are looking up into the same sky, just a little bit farther East. :)
Pull out your knitted wonders, cause it will be a little cooler as you head over to Maine, in the evenings.
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