Mike and Yonetta's Great Loop Adventure: Up the Hudson River

We have been putting the miles away on the Hudson River. The scenic beauty on this stretch is breathtaking. We have gone past Peekskill, West Point, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Hyde Park, and we are now spending the night at Kingston NY. This is the town known for quarring blue stone years ago. The weather on this stretch has been near perfect. We should make Troy tomorrow which would set us up to enter the Erie Canal but Tropical storm Andrea dropped so much rain earlier on this section that parts of the canal are still closed. We hear it could be next Tuesday or Wednesday before the entire canal is open. Several have been waiting for close to a week already. We should only have to wait a few days it appears. We will know more tomorrow. The pictures below do not really do justice to the view we have seen but I wanted to share a few.