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Yeah, let's go. Well, Hello and welcome. Thanks for getting
your pod on, Thanks for telling a friend, Thanks for spreading the word
of the pirate ship. Me and Jamison hanging out. We'll have the Loopers
coming up for you in a little bit. I didn't know what loopers were,
but James got very upset with me about the Loopers because they came in
here and they cut into our ice cream time one night. You got your
ice cream all right. Jamison's gonna be heading out of town shortly, and
I thought it would be fun to U just kind of catch up with you
real quick because you're going into what great now talk right into that microphone.
You know the rules eighth grade and h and you're gonna be playing basketball.
Yeah, you're excited about that. Could you like use words? Yes?
Yes? Now, you did a lot of on the street stuff. Yes,
do you like doing that? You did a fantastic job with it.
Yes, you really did. You did an excellent job. What are some
of the things that you enjoyed while you were here? Yes, Um,
I enjoyed watching South Bark. Yeah. I didn't realize how dirty that show.
You've laughed so hard. I laughed at some of it. You're right,
you laughed out a lot of it. Yeah, I haven't. I
mean I always like South Park, I just don't watch it on a regular
basis. So that, Um, what else? C Breeze with your brothers?
That was my favorite part of so fun? Yeah? I like the
water slides there. I went on every single water slide, every single one.
And uh, what about coming here and hanging out doing on the street
stuff? You like that fun? Because I made did you? Uh?
And then you learn to change the tire because we got a flat tire.
You have ideas for businesses. What do you want to do? Like,
what's my advice to someone who wants money? Yeah, So a good way
to make money I think now is something called bird dogging, especially if you're
my age or you're into things like real estate. I really like real estate.
Um, that's also a really good way to keep your money safe,
because I mean soon cash might not be a currency anymore, and it might
did you all go digital? So keeping money like in crypto and stuff.
I'm getting off, but I'm just using examples and stuff. Real estate is
a really good way to keep your money safe. But there's things. So
you know, when you go hunting and you have a bird dog and the
dog you throw them out and go get the prey, and then you obviously
give them a tree because they did so good. So if what I do,
I go on my phone, I go on Zillo. I go around
Alabama, doesn't matter where it is. I usually go from Birmingham to Florence,
Alabama, because that's where you live. You live in Alabama, So
I find it for maybe a little under two hundred grand. Go on Facebook,
go find real estate agents, join group chats with real estate agents in
your area, then message them say hey, I'm a young entrepreneur. I'm
a bird dogger. I'd like it. Actually, don't tell them you're a
bird dogger. That's not a good thing to do, So don't say that.
But you can say that to the right one. Say I'm I'm a
young entrepreneur. I found rundown houses that I think you are totally able to
flip. Just along those lines. Do not say that you're totally able to
flip, because would make you sound like an idiot. Just say that are
able to be flipped, and I think would look beautiful to be flipped.
Things like that. Then if they say yes, blah blah blah, say
that the price. There's just one thing. This is the one key of
making the money is what you want to say. I'm looking for a finder's
fee of lowest to two hundred and fifty dollars and highest being I'd shoot for
two. If they're above two hundred, like two hundred grand, two hundred
grand and above, I'd say two thousand. If there are one hundred,
one hundred, forty thousand or lower, I'd go maybe a hundred, like
one thousand or lower. Okay, so that's one that's really good. If
you want to get into real estate. That worked for you. I actually
have contact, I haven't gotten I haven't gotten the money yet, all right,
and I just got back in contact with him. I got a new
phone. Okay, what else? Um, job ship, So I need
more research about it, but I'm pretty so I go on shopify. And
when you're making your business, it can be a clothing line, it can
be your own homemade business. It could be all this like cooking stuff,
cooking appliances, literally anything. And then there's drop shipping. I swear a
lot of people get rich off drop shipping, especially teenagers. You don't have
to you can be eighteen, but like you can be lower than eighteen.
She usually me, I'd use my mom's with her permission. I'm not trying
to be like that. Yeah yeah, yeah whatever. I'm getting really slow.
I'm sorry. Um. So, then you want to find the product
that you think is good right now. I think it's these colorful like bubble
guns. They're huge, they're like they're like so they have a cover like
a dish, and you fill it with soapa. Then you just dip it
like it's just the safis. You dip it and then you spray it,
and there's colors. It's RGB blue, pink, green, and red,
all those colors, and they spray like a million bubbles in like a minute.
That's all over TikTok. If when you go go through TikTok, you
you can't go an entire day through TikTok without seeing someone showing their product,
but their voice isn't being played. So if they're showing a product and their
voice isn't being played, they're drop shipping. Okay, TikTok's a really good
way to use drop shipping. You can do sell candles, you can sell
fidgets, you can sell all this stuff. TikTok shops good. What's the
endgame for you? What's the goal? Um? By fourteen? I want
I wanted to say a thousand, but I think I can shoot way and
more. For that, I can shoot way and more than that, okay,
and then there's more. They're saving your money. Yeah, So if
you like, if you're like me, yeah, fat stop. So if
you're a little bigger, you're a bigger guy and you want to save money
a lot, I'm being honest, a lot of your money. Can I
say a custod what that's rude, a lot of shit, a lot of
shitty foods. Yeah yeah, So if your money goes towards a lot of
shitty foods, you can save the money because most of it, if we're
being on as bigger guys, than money's going towards food. And if you're
if you if it's unnecessary foods like what I bought, but it's made,
it's for the plane. I promise, it's for the planet. I had
listened, because I have stuff you bought, and then I have those that
I bought and I ate too, So I'm not eating a bunch on the
point because I'll get sick. Whatever I'm getting off track. You can save
a lot, a lot, a lot of money. Technically, I was
smart. I actually thought about it. It took me a lot. Or
you could do interviews. You can work for my father do interviews, and
I make ten dollars. Listen. So I had seven dollars. I spent
seven dollars on snacks, but I still had twenty dollars. So when I
had the twenty dollars, I have more than what I started with. So
technically I didn't spend all my money and I didn't waste my money. At
I'm not complaining, and no one, you're not You're you're not in any
trouble with me. Rushed, You're not in any trouble. I was being
rushed. Well, we're gonna wrap this up, wrap it up. But
I love spending time with you. You are absolute delight. You're a whole
lot of fun and extremely funny. And we even went to the comedy club.
Then okay, all right, Jamison the Loopers coming up in just moments.
But first, Paul Cole, how are you? Paul? I'm doing
just fine considering what Mother Nature storing us this in the last few weeks.
UM. Looking for the weeks I had to be a little brighter and a
little less raining. Well, it looks like things should be pretty nice.
This Saturday. Saturday is going to be another great event Saturday, Sectacular Friday.
Getting July underway. We were supposed to start on Monday with the Superhero
Car series. Mother newtsure brought us a lot a lot of rain and uh
looks at back a couple of weeks to July nineteenth. Um, but this
weekend July eat uh Saturdays, since says spectacular and uh, we'll have our
big blocks and full funder Cars Sprints and uh uh Sportsman. Yeah, it
looks awesome because I think it's supposed to be about eighty so a little bit
cooler than today. Now the races that we're supposed to happen on Monday,
that's gonna be July nineteenth. Now, yeah, we moved out off the
one day. July nineteenth will be the Superductare Series starts to Stripe seventy and
then instead of the CRSA Sprints, we've we've addited the Northeastern Sportsman Series that
got rained a couple weeks ago from from the Saturday night, so we've we've
mixed that background. Um, the CRSA Sprints any Arnibo trevelin that day,
but that that will be an added show that week. So we'll have three
shows and seven things well great that you know what good, that'll be exciting
and what a busy time, but an exciting time down there at on the
on the fifteenth, we have Family Autographic Night. That'll be a big,
big, big time show. We'll be able to come out on the track
and beat their favorite drivers and get some candy and autographs. Uh. The
twenty second we will be our next wall of fame. We're bringing in a
big name driver from the past that will be be announced this week that'll be
here for to uh be added to the Canadigua Wall of Fame. Oh this
man, what fun? What a that's awesome. I think that's so exciting.
It'll be a long time driver that hasn't been hasn't been in, has
been in tomp for a bit, so just to tease a little bit,
he's hasn't been able to get down for a while. So we're looking forward
to adding him to the wall. And this weekend again, just last Saturday
spectacular with beautiful weather. Yeah, beautiful weather. And that's a great thing.
It is Paul call the president and operator and general manager and man of
all hats. I think if there's a hat to be worn at Land of
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pretty close even at ructure every now and then. See, you know what
it is, Paul, I think you kind of like that though. You
like having your hands in the mud, so to speak, in the clay,
in the clay, well you have to, yeah, you know,
it's it's it's not a it's not a cudent sport. It's a thirty one
and somebody's gonna do it. So I'm happy to be able to be a
part. I'll tell you what, you do a great job down there,
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Well, hello, thanks for getting your pot on. Thanks for telling
a friend. That's how we spread the word about the pirate ship. I
had no idea that we would do a podcast at all tonight, and we'll
keep this fairly brief. But I thought it was an interesting interloop because people
were walking by the studio and they started waving. It's July third when we're
taking this, and so I started waving back, and then they came down
and then they said to me, they're loopers. And I thought. My
youngest son said, should I run fast? Run fast? So what is
a looper? Would be the question. Well, there's this thing called the
Great American Loop, and it is being able to transverse the eastern United States
through the rivers and then the Gulf Coast of Florida, then the East coast
of the Atlantic Ocean into the Hudson River, and then you can choose a
couple of different paths. Once you go through the Hudson River. You can
choose the Erie Canal, which is what brings us here, okay. Or
you can go straight up the Champlain the Hudson River and the Champlain Canal and
sweet and through the Ridue Canal of Canada and the Trend Severn and the Eastern
or the Northern Bay, Great Northern Northern Channel and the Northern Bay, Georgian
Bay. So this is this would be what I would call bad pod in
my part, not your part mine. I don't know what you mean by
that you need one. I need to get right on top of the microphone
a little bit. But yes, like that, okay, But I didn't
ask who you are. My name's Karen, and I'm on a boat called
Long Recess. Long Recess. You are from Hint, Ohio. Yeah,
yeah, just north of Cincinnati. So how long does it take to do
that loop? And what kind of weather do you run into? And all
kinds of things? Right we and how has the Canadian fires been affecting things?
And yeah, so it takes a year, about a year? Whoa
a little or a little bit less, little bit longer. It took us
a little bit longer than a year. Um. But you follow the seasons.
So when you go down the rivers of UM. So I didn't you
know? You go, you get to Chicago, you get to the gosh,
you get to um like Michigan, and then you've got the Illinois,
the Chicago River, the Illinois River. Uh. Then you've got the Mississippi
River, the Ohio River. Then you've got so you head south. And
so you head south during the fall kind of spring fall and tennessee Tom Bigbie
Waterway into the Mobile Bay and then the Gulf coast of Florida and the East
coast seasons. Yeah, you go Florabama and the East coast to Florida.
Now what about things like well her, I mean as much as we're saying,
you go down there, but you hit hurricane season and things at at
times? Did you you follow the season so you don't hit the hurrican Oh
you don't. Okay, you avoid the tornadoes, the hurricanes and the winters.
So you um spring down the river system, right, no, spring
up, spring up the coast. UM go across the summer in the Great
Lakes. Yes, there you go, right, and and then you may
I ask your at least your first name, Pam, Pam and and Pam.
You're from California, correct, and you live in Napa correct. That
is some of the most beautiful country in the world. And yet I would
say, here at this time of year is gorgeous. Right, I grew
up downstate. You mentioned the Hudson River. I don't know if you passed
Rhinebeck, New York. We did, We actually visited r Did you go
to? My mom lives there. That's where I grew up, that in
that area, and she still lives there. So I go down every once
in a while. And I love the Hudson, but I've only really kayaked
on the Hudson. That's a and the Hudson's incredibly beautiful. It is realize
that, ye did you go down through New York City and all we did?
Yeah? Great? Yeah? Yeah. It is wondering. So for
a full year have you been doing this all, all four of you together
or separately? Well, we met along the way, you met along the
way, so you didn't even know each other, did not prior to doing
this, prior to being a looper? Yep? And that's the cool thing
about that. That is pretty cool. So what kind of boat do you
have, Karen? So, we have a twenty seven foot Ranger tug.
Okay, and my husband and I have spent spent a thirteen months doing the
loop on that Ranger tug. It's one of the smallest boats that does the
range. I was going to say, isn't Yeah, I was thinking maybe,
Yeah, that's what I mean. I know, I know, I
know, and I'm familiar with that. That length is more. You'll see
a lot of those on a Rondequoit Bay here or the lake usually runners and
stuff. Wow, that's a tight living quarters. Yeah, it's a little
camp for thirteen months for thirteen months. And must really really love your how
everybody says that I do really love my husband? Yeah? Well, I
mean, you know, I how long have you may I ask man beat
Pry, how long have you been married? Fourteen years this time? Okay?
Yeah, first marriage, a second yeah for both of us. That
that's when you get along. I gotta be careful. No, it's just
kidding, O kidding. Uh. And then what kind of boat do you
have, Pam? We have a thirty four foot PDQ Power catamar Ran.
Okay, oh, catamaran. Yes, you have a catamaran Cadamarran. Wow,
it's beautiful. Yeah, I bet, I bet. Is that easier
or harder to navigate? It's easier. Yes. We have a monohul okay,
a Nordic tug in California that we use when we go to the West
coast. Back to the West Coast. It's much easier to maneuver. I
believe in it. It's you know, better in certain water situations. Yeah,
we love it. And it's wider, right, a little more room
and right, how long how long have you been on that boat? We
have? Well, it took us about ten months to finish the loop ten
months okay, yeah? And then did you how did so? What did
you How did you get the boat here? Did you buy it here?
Okay? We actually bought it. We bought it in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
Okay, yeah, do you I was gonna say, a winter there,
do you We don't be winter in California. Yeah, I would figure
where like where in California do you stay in Napa or do you go south
to the Palm Palm Spring? So we actually um stay in the Napa era.
We sold our home of twenty six years to actually launch on this great
loop adventure. It's been a dream of ours forever. This is really really
incredible. I love that idea. This has been a dream of yours for
a long long time. Gosh, probably ten fifteen years, ten fifteen years
to do this, ye, and finally just launched. And now we have
our boat on the West coast and when we go back there, we live
on that. You live on your And where is that in San Diego?
Now in Rio Vista, which is halfway between Sacramento and San Francisco, so
you're a little more north. We are north. Yeah, that's gets a
little cold at times, La raw. No, you know what, we
have heating and air conditioning on the boat. Okay, you like it better
than because to me, Paradise always looked like San Diego paradise, you know
what I mean, just paradise. It's just like it's always seventy something degrees,
the sunshining, what is it Coronado Islands down there, and that just
looks so beautiful to me that I couldn't imagine. A matter of fact,
my sister was my uncle was a pilot for Delta based in Park City,
and then he or he lived in Park City, and then he also had
a place in Palm Springs because Park City gets up to your ass and snow
until June and then uh and then from there, Um, i'm watching your
husband went and got these more people who were loopers are planning there's in the
planning stage. And are they from here? From very far away? Yeah?
From pretty close by. Wow, And we just met them here while
we're boating. You know, you guys are just a bunch of friendly,
warm boating people. Yeah. We're parked out there on the canal. Yeah.
Yeah, Now have you gone to my friend Damian Ulconrey's across the way
last night? Oh, we'll just look for the big mouth from with the
Irish accent. He sees from Ironland and he's a he's a big mouth.
Uh yeah, why don't you sit down here as well? Yeah, yeah,
just real quick, because I'm hearing that you're a future looper and I'm
learning. I had no idea that this was a thing. I didn't know
this was now. My brother, my younger brother, bicycled across the United
States, which is also a thing, and there's books and trails and he
went from Seattle to Virginia. But I didn't know there was a looper deal.
What is your name? Michelle? Hi? Michelle and Michelle, I
hear you. Are you from the area? Yes? Where I'm actually from
the Binghamton area. Oh okay, so you're and do where do you live?
Now here or down there? I live in Binghamton, Well, actually
around Whitney Point. Okay, well we keep the boat messing. Oh you
do, okay on the canal? Yep. Oh, look at this,
and you're a future looper. Future looper. I didn't even know this existed.
I'm so happy to know this. What a cool, cool thing.
So can I ask you, Karen, what did you do when you were
I assume you're retired, yeah, or you're just taking the sabbatical. No,
sort of retired. My husband, I know, I don't. He
looks like he could be retired. You don't look like I'm sorry. I
don't mean to throw shade, you don't. You don't take it first,
thank you. So he's retired and he was ready to do this loop,
and so I said, okay, I'll stop working, and we did this
loop. Can I guess what your career was? Sure? Go ahead?
Were you a teacher. We were both of us, both of you.
My parents were teachers. Long recess, our last sames long. Okay,
and we are on a long reasons, a long recess. That is what
did you teach? Um? I taught elementary and then some middle school,
and then I stopped working as an elementary principle. As an elementary principle.
Okay, how did you know that? I could? Karen was too friendly
and I could see. But Karen doesn't. I'm assuming this. Can I
hug you? Ready for this? I'm assuming Karen if she's older than me,
it's by a few months ifty two. There you go, by just
a few months. Yeah, that's what I said, by a few months.
And I figured that, and I'm going and I married an older man.
He roped the cradle. She can't exactly, She can't. That's usually
like she looked too young to retire. But my parents were teachers. My
mom was a speech mythologist. My dad had a doctorate in philosophy and taught
sixth grade English for thirty five years, because what are you gonna do with
a doctor. He built the house we grew up in. He did all
kinds of weird stuff, but that was his thing. So I kind of
got that that five and then you're honestly, Pam, your husband looks like
he either did some kind of He looks like he could build stuff. He
did. We actually built our home in data. Yeah, he looks like
he's took us nine months. There's builders and then there's carpenters. Your husband
looks like a carpenter. Yeah, but like he could build any finishing everything,
and that's why he saves us thousands of dollars. And Pam, you
look like you could have been assume ia or I'm saying it wrong in terms
of wine, but they how did they say it? Assume I A would
be That's almost like a wrestler. No, what did you do? I
was a purchasing agent for the University of California. Oh okay, for any
branch or just the state university kind of like New York we have the State
University of the University of California. I was with Davis. Oh nice,
Okay, look at this. I find this really interest So what so what's
next? Where does everybody are you all? I mean, the four of
you going to travel together from here? Well, we finished the loop in
October of last year, okay, and you finished in December, and so
we so what are we doing now? We're doing um what we didn't get
to do during the loop. We did not come the eastern the Erie Canal.
I got you. We went up the Lake Champlain up to Montreal and
then down to the Ottawa and the Radu and Trent Severin through Canada. Okay,
we did not do the Erie Canal. So we um left Port Clinton
on the Erie Um Lake Erie and came across the Erie Canal. And so
we're going to go down into the Finger Lakes. And so they're coming east
on the Erie Canal. And do you know what fingered like you want to
hit Cayuga? Did I say that right? Kuka kut ku ku a Cayuga.
We're going to go to Cayuga and Seneca. Okay. Sen Senega is
the deepest they used to do submarine and the Navy did a lot of things
there because it's deep and it's old. The water can get very cold there,
but it's beautiful and you're write down by Watkins Glen, which is fantas.
You should go there because and check the races because there could be Ferrari
races. One of my really good buddies has a place called the Little Speed
Shop and he works on all imports and there's a lot of doctors and things
and they they do fabrication and they build, they redo Porsches and Ferraris and
all kinds of things. And then he sets up for during the season down
in Watkins. Glennie bought a house down there and he sets up right in
the garage area, so when the Ferrari races and some of those races come
through, he's there and he'll fix all their cars. And then he has
to move out from when NASCAR comes in because NASCAR takes over everything. That's
a big, big best. But usually my favorite races are those. And
it's great wine country. Yeah, I mean it ain't Napa, but but
I'm just saying it's really nice, very nice. We've been there by car
and we just try to flight of and we just try try to flight up
at my wine and oh my wine and cheesebar right over here. That's where
we're coming from. Okay, they were from the Finger Lakes right, Yeah.
Yeah, they do a lot of Finger Lakes wins. Yes, do
you like? Uh? Our area is probably known more for reestlings. That's
what we had. Yeah, they were the driver little it's really good,
okay, good, okay, good like something. I'm more of a red
that gets too sweet. But that's that's okay, that's all right. So
now have you taken notes? So we've actually done from Annapolis up. Okay,
that sounds aggressive to me. Aggressive, well coming from Maryland. I
mean at times I would think weather and different things that you're going to run
into and trying to navigate the waterways and the currents and the different things that
change. It can be a Michelle just got our captain's license. I did
get my captain And what are you sailing right now? We're in a carver.
We're in a three ninety six carver. Okay. So we've done some
different boats. We brought a main ship up from Annapolis. Okay, We've
done a silverton from New Jersey, and we brought our car were up from
Long Island. Wow, so you've got you've got some miles under your some
seaway, some nautical miles some yes, some all right? Well that and
this will be exciting. So are you ready to go for thirty anywhere from
ten to thirteen months. We're ready to go. Yeah, we're ready to
go, but we have to wait for him to retire. He looks like
he's forty five years old. He's he's a little over fifty fifty, So
we got about seven years before he's ready to retire. Okay, So Bill,
we're all members of the AGLCA, which is the America's Great Loop Cruisers
Association and sounds like a bunch of nerds like I wouldn't join this, honestly,
but I'm going. You guys look like you're a lot of fun.
Both people are a lot of fun. Yes, and so so is this
agent cool? Because it's very cool. I just have to say, what's
your husband's name? Karen? Tony? Okay, so Tony Karen and has
become just a horrible name to have an American around the world these days.
But she doesn't seem like a Karena. Put her on a twenty five foot
boat twenty seven Excuse me, I forgot that that extra two feet is a
lot. Believe me, ye, twenty seven foot boat for over a year.
I'm a nice person, nice personal cow. Now, did you fly
home for holidays and things? We did? We did? We did?
We flew home for holidays and three times, like three times, and we
had a COVID postpone vacation and we took that so we were off the boat
for a while for that. Okay, but um, thirteen months is what
are you gonna miss living on the boat? We miss it, which is
why we you know, we thought we were going to sell it when we
came home. Um, but we just changed our mind and decided to do
this trip. And so we're trying to figure out on this trip if this
is something, would it be would it be a bigger boat that maybe and
maybe yeah, and then you would live somewhere maybe a little more temperate.
What we miss is the people well we miss about the trip are people like
Pam. And this is interesting because it's the people that we meet along the
way. So when my youngest son who is visiting me, his grandparents had
an RV and the RV community is much is similar to this right in a
way. But boats are just so much cooler. And that's what people tell
us. People who have done rving and boating say that boating is much more
friendly and much more community and it's much different than the hearts, a little
more open minded, is I don't know why that happy? Yes, And
well because you get you're you're living the dream. I mean that that to
me is the now. I might aspire to do this, live in the
dream. Look at this, that's it. But yeah yesterday, yeah,
yeah, yeah. Well here's the other thing. It's a bunch of alcoholics
on boats and I cannot I mean as an irishman and a guy with a
drinking problem myself. Yeah, you could fit right in this is I had.
I didn't know any of this existing. We eat well too, I
bet, I bet so. And you were how many months? Ten?
Ten? And did you guys fly back to California? Would assume a never?
You haven't gone back at all. Just went straight through, just straight
through. Wow, it's scariest moments on a boat, yes, but I
mean, was there a scary moment at all in terms of anything. There
were times that we didn't follow the weather forecast and we went out anyway,
and one was in the keys and I said, maybe we need to figure
out what our limits are. We think our limits are these waves and this
wind. But let's go during this condition and see. And it was too
much and we stopped and we were able to duck into a marina. Another
time, the weather said it was going to be this, and it wasn't
this, it was that, and it was worse and um, but there
were like ten of us who went out that day and we just kept going
and we were fine, the boat's going to take more than we can take,
ye and we know that. And we were fine. And we got
to the end of that run and we were with all the boats that went
out that day and we were all, you know, all fine and marveled
at the forecast was so different than what actually was. But you just pick
your weather days. What what have you learned about yourself maybe along this way?
Sometimes these things can be very introspective, right, you can kind of
really learn. And I don't mean to put pressure on anybody, but I
mean it's a lot. You're you've uprooted your life life as you know it,
right, You've taken all the conveniences of home and stuck it into a
really tight space. Imagine if either one of your husband's had come to you
at some point and said, I found the perfect place to live. It's
twenty seven feet, it's thirty two feet. You know what I'm saying,
Like, I just all that you have to learn how to I mean,
how about this. Here's something Zimble a big thing in the United States now,
I talked about their shows on it. Minimization, right, we minimize
things like we over buy? Is that I mean we are that's our number
one thing. It's to consume in this country. Do you find that you
maybe it can live on less, Yes, you can live on less,
but I still over buy. Well, I mean I like nice things,
right, we all like nice things, but I mean in terms of you
know, the number of clothes or what you really need or I don't,
I don't know. Yeah yeah, yeah, and especially us having sold our
home to you know, to this. Yeah, in a way, it's
liberating. It's like, you know, we've let go of so many things
that we didn't really need, right, yeah, yep. And the other
thing I learned was men and women will never truly be able to communicate,
even on the boats. But I love my husband. Yeah, I mean
it's not to be a time's very trying. Yes, it's it's a Venus
and Mars situation, but it could it also be one of these things where
it's a shared experience that nobody else has these moments. Yeah, I'm seeing
Tony very proud of too. I would think we completed it. I didn't
realize how proud I was going to be. And when we crossed, they
call it crossing your wake, when you when you finish where you started,
okay, And I was truly very excited and proud of what we'd done.
Yeah, did you toast the moment with like? Yeah, I would think
you have to. I mean talk about a true partnership, right, I
mean you really traversed. I'm sure some lonely days probably, you know,
travelary moments and scary moments, right, So how long on a typical day
if you were you know, when I was a kid, my parents were
teachers. My uncle had the place. He was a pilot for Deltas who
was up and down the West Coast mostly and then into Park City. So
he was living in Bainbridge Island in Seattle and the World's Fair in eighties something
was out there. So we went out to Vancouver to the World's Fair and
we drove. But in the beginning it was like eight hour days in the
car. Is it similar on a boat? I mean, do you plot
out how many? Yeah? And yeah, And it all depends too I
would think, like here on the canal when you're going through. I think
we were out on the kayak yesterday. I think is it five miles an
hour? It is five miles an hour, go ahead and Michelle, Yeah,
it's about five miles an hour for us. Is it the whole way
down Michelle? Yeah, most of the way down through the canal, because
you've got to worry about the lot, the wake that you're making, yeah,
sure, and the locks. How long it takes through the locks going
past other boaters. Yeah, So you've got to plot out, you know,
your mileage, how far you can go before the locks close, right,
and where you want to get And do you have to if you're staying
on your boat along this trip, do you have to make reservations along ahead
of time? You do? Ahead of you don't. There are some areas
that are much more popular and you might want to make a reservation along the
erie along the canal. It's it's great. There are three walls that the
Erie Canal offers and you basically just pay for electricity and it's wonderful. Oh
so these are all the Okay, so Sylvan Beach I'm seeing in Lockport and
then and you schedule everything, but only about a week right behind us here
where And you're saying both your boats are tied up? Is your boat tried
up there as well? Michelle? Do they charge you for I don't know
how that works. Is there a fee? Is it like camping? I
don't know. There's a charge here. But a lot of the places on
the area are free. They are or it's a donation type of situation.
So most of the places on the Erie Canal are free. There are very
few the charge. Okay, so it's nice on the area. So here
they charge? How much? Kid? May I ask? I don't mean
to be rude, but just had a curiosity. Nights eleven eleven eleven night
eleven for us? Yeah? Does it go by the sides of the boat?
How much? And marinas too, a little twenty seven? It's eleven
dollars like New York, New York City. Yeah, oh, it's six
dollars a foot, depending on the size of your boat. Six n and
that's kind of the cheaper. And yeah, and most marinas are by foot
whatever, by foot okay, a dollar two dollars, yeah, seven dollars,
seven dollars, seven new dollars. And actually if you're in the city
itself, it's like ten dollars. Okay, so really, but you're right
in the heart of did you go down into like, uh, what is
it the seaport down there? Stayed at Liberty Landing. Liberty Landing is a
premier place. And then you go buy the statue of Liberty and you go
buy with another boat, so that boat takes a picture of you. You're
your boat with a statue of Liberty, and then you flip around and take
a picture of them and their boat with a statue of Liberty. That's a
great little Yes, it's a really milestone moment to go buy the statue of
Liberty like that. Now, growing up down there, we used to go,
I was gonna say, Mystic Seaport, that's Connecticut. This was oh
gosh, but it's it's right down You could go off to Battery Island and
everything from there, and it was it became almost a destination for people that
gentrified that part of the city in the eighties. Yeah, because the rest
of me and the kid give it was pretty rough down there for many many
years, especially if you went to Times Square when I was a kid,
it was authentic. Now it's disney fied, you know, it's cleaned up.
Oh yeah, it's clastic and everything. But it's crazy. Yeah,
it is. Well, this is I find it so interesting and I'm so
glad that you waved and came in. He gave me the boater wave,
the big boater wave. How much do you split through the driving of the
boat. And on our boat, it's mostly the Tony who drives, Captain
Tony, Captain Tony, and he'll what's honey, great name for a bar.
But Captain Tony does most so driving. Okay, I'm willing to drive,
but he likes to sit behind the wheel and be in control. Any
boat, anybody's boat big enough to have the bridge be lifted. All of
you really, even you're scared? Yep, yeah, you guys are all
painting the butt. Yeah we are. Well. I always just sneaking through
this parking lot. Er. I'll go over the bridge over that way if
I could see it coming in, because I live just out down the street.
But when it goes the best is when I see the people they get
stuck at the bridge and the bridge goes down, and then they get stuck
at the tree. But it's fun, it's Fairport and Harbor has been great.
Everybody people are so friendly. Well, I'll see and even and Kevin,
Michelle's husband has and Michelle, they just have been so hospitable and they're
docked out there and very helpful. Can't say enough about Fairport and how friendly
they are. Make sure you talk about AGLCA. Well you just did,
so make sure you put that part in there and edit any of this America's
Great Luke Cruise's Association. What do you listen to on your boat? By
the way? Music one? Oh, I'm a big fan of Chris Stapleton.
There's some Chris Stapleton I really like. I'm I love Jimmy Buffett.
We like Johnny Cash, okay and Jimmy Buffett. Does anybody know this guy
John Hyatt, John Hyatt, No, you know John Hyatt. I love
John Hyatt. John Hyatts is one of the We wrote a lot of songs
made famous by other people. So this is one of my favorite Tennessee plates.
And on that note, for Karen, Pam, Michelle, Tony what,
Vince, Vince, I'm sorry, Bench and Kevin, I'm Bill Moran.
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