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Courtney drove up from Burlington, left her car in Champly, Quebec, and Ubered in Montreal to hang out with us for a few days. We left Montreal on June 28 with a favorable 2 knot current and cruised down the St. Lawrence - basically due north - only to turn almost 180 degrees and head basically due south toward Lake Champlain.  When we made the turn, we were at Latitude 46°. That's north of Moosehead Lake in Maine and Prince Edward Island in Canada. Nice job, Egret. We dropped Courtney off in Champley and looked forward to meeting her again in Burlington.  

You never know what you're going to see when you're cruising.  Here's a line dancing class in Champly, Quebec.

We love Canada, but we also love getting back to the US.  Sadly, the US was not as excited to have us back as we were to be back.  It took almost an hour to activate a flawed App, be told that I needed to delete the App and reinstall it,  and upload all the information that I had just deleted.  After all of that, it was time for a little celebration.  It might also be time for Roger to get a haircut.

I have a rule that I never have a Cheesesteak when I'm outside Philly.  It's just not right. It can't be the same. It might be unhealthy. Wait, a cheesesteak, by definition, is unhealthy. Well, I obviously broke down, biked 23 miles on our collapsible boat-bikes, and had a cheesesteak.  I have to say, they were very legit. But the 11.5-mile ride back to the boat was not fun.  

It was fun to catch up with nephews, Andrew and Kyle, while in Burlington.

Coming down the Hudson River, we wanted to cut across the top of Manhattan through the Harlem River.  The railroal bridge tender at the beginning of the river had other ideas.  The bridge would be closed for the rest of the day.  No problem, we'll go around Manhattan. It always provides such iconic views. 

When we finished the Great Loop in May 2023, I never finished the blog entries for the Loop.  I think I left everyone off in South Carolina. 

Here is the conclusion to our Adventures on Egret 2.0. We traveled approximately 1400 miles at an average speed of 9 knots through 4 states and two countries.  We transited 102 locks (ok, it should have been an even 100), rising a total of 713 feet.  We spent 4 nights on anchor, 20 nights on free walls at the locks, and 25 nights in marinas. We saw one child, two nephews, one Philly neighbor, and one college buddy, and met lots of new friends along the way. That's a wrap - thanks for reading!!