Today we traveled 62 miles to the City of Little Falls just past lock 17 making it though nine more locks. Surprisingly the Fourth of July holiday weekend still had not brought out many boaters. The lock masters all said they had been pretty slow and we still had yet to lock though with another boat. It was like having the Erie Canal to ourselves which by the way is a fantastic experience!
Today we started about 8:30am and ran until we were told the locks ahead would be closing about 5. We had read some reviews about the stop there and it was supposed to be within feet of a fantastic Mexican food truck and only steps from there to a brewery. I was excited as it sounded like my perfect stop. We pulled in tied up and were happily surprised that the town only charged $1 a foot and included electricity and water. This was our first time other then Cat Skill of not having to pay an additional charge for electric and it was cheap. Seemed this stop was getting better and better! This is when I noticed the food truck across the street was closed. This was quite sad but I still had hopes for a brewery. So we set off insearch of some food and instead found the small town theater. Max was insisting that we all needed to see the new minions movie so off we went. The movie was ok, Max really liked it, and I was still excited for a brewery visit. We trekked back over to the brewery only to find out it was closed as well. Seemed all the local towns coordinate their festivals and these guys decided to simply close everything down for the holiday weekend. Needless to say I was quite disappointed in the lack of enthusiasm for capitalism the town was displaying. We went back to the boat had dinner then purchased some ice cream bars from the marina office.
While this is truly a beautiful post card perfect little town on the water they are now dead to me. I had been excited all day about some good Mexican food and beer only to be denied both. The worst part was the next morning while walking the dog we ran into a group of older guys having breakfast in the park because of course their normal spot was closed only to tell me how great the food truck was and that there is almost no better beer to be had then the local brewery. Then just to add salt to the wound it seems a couple of them had accidentally crashed a private event the brewery was having the night before where they were given free beer. I could not take it anymore and we shoved off promptly after that discussion to continue our journey west up the canal.
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