Ok so I've given up on the number of locks we have done at this point. The guide book says there are 38 or so let's go with that. One would think its easy each lock has a number painted on it in bright yellow but for some reason I never know what lock we are at.. I have to grab the binoculars and hope to see it or I'm franticly looking it up on Navionics or asking Amy to as we approach each one of these. It does not help things that some are labeled 28a & 28b then a bit further down the river I'm pretty sure we skipped a number or two? But who's counting right. At this point we have just done a lot of locks. Needless to say we passed though a few more today and traveled about 65NM ending in the town of Newark, NY.
Newark was a nice stop. The free wall was right down town and offered free power and water. A representative from the chamber of commerce was hanging out by the water and invited us over to their office by the water just asking us to sign their guest book and offered a lot a great information about the town. Unfortunately we would learn that this town like many of the other recent stops was pretty much shutdown for the holiday weekend like most of the others have been along the way. By this point we have been traveling a lot of long days in a row and it had really started to get to me about two days ago. So in an effort to get off the boat more we have been eating out a lot. We called five restaurant's and none appeared to be open.. Even the local Chinese restaurant was closed. Those guys never seem to close.. most cities I've been to they are open Christmas Day, Thanksgiving, Easter nothing seems to dissuade their capitalistic nature. Needless to say we finally found the one pizza place in town that was open and walked over there as well as the grocery store as we were low in the bread and fresh fruit department.
We were one of two boats tied up to the wall here for the night and the other boat happened to be a 2008 42ft Nordic Tug. This was now the second one we have seen besides ours. We wandered over and met the owners who were also doing the loop and got a tour. They were very interesting and it turned out the husband has a things for Nordics and this was his 4th one. They bought the 42 to do the loop in but seems his love is still for the 32 of which he has owned 3 over over the years and hopes to buy another one when they go back home to the west coast. After talking with them we were treated yet again to a couple more fireworks shows from two different directions. We again were attacked by bugs. At this point after about 4 really good firework shows we were starting to become a bit jaded and almost went back to the boat but we decided to tough it out with the bugs and really enjoyed the last show we would see along our loop trip.
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