Sun Aug 29: Time has lost all meaning

In which we CANNOT do more driving ...

The locks we needed were finally open - but we needed to move the car to our end pt of Brewerton NY before proceeding, and we just could NOT do more (non-air conditioned) driving, so we decided to sleep a bunch and move the car tomorrow. We felt confident the locks were stable and we could wait a day or two (HA).

There were several hours of active debate about car logistics.  That's how exciting our life is...  

• One option - rent a car in Schenectady, drive both our car and the rental to Brewerton and leave our car there so it is waiting.  
• Or - drive our car to Brewerton and take the train back to the boat (which would require a bus ride from Brewerton to Syracuse).  
• Or - leave the car in Schenectady and come back later to get it. 
• Or - leave the car at a garage in Syracuse to be fixed and beg them to keep it for a month.
  
• Or - drive our car to a mid-point and then have it for use as we cruise down the Erie Canal.  
• Or - sell the car and buy a new one/or a camper.
  

 

We decided that getting it to Brewerton now was the best option - we can load from the boat directly to the car and AC won't be critical at that time of the year. Some of us think that loading into a camper makes more sense, as we have loaned out our house and so will continue to cruise aimlessly around the county - just in a motor vehicle.

After using up the morning on car logistics, we decided to do laundry one more time, just to keep the fresh underwear supply topped up. And that was it…we didn’t need to shop and it was Sunday.  We came back to the boat, read, sat in the sun and did a puzzle.

For some weird reason this puzzle made me hungry for sweets!!