Sharp's Travels

We took our time packing up this morning. We weren’t ready to go until 10:30 am.

We crossed back into the US only about 10 miles from our campground.
Bud & Joyce Avery, a couple from Baker Acres in Florida, lived only about 75 miles down the road in Massena, NY. We called to see if they would be available for lunch and headed their way.

We parked in the old Wal-Mart parking lot and Bud & Joyce came and picked us up. We had lunch at one of their favorite diners. Once we had finished we headed over to their place for coffee.

They wanted to show us some of the sites, so we all went over to the St. Lawrence Seaway, Dwight D. Eisenhower visitor’s center. This is one of New York’s busiest tourist attractions. An observation deck is located on top of the Center to provide a view of vessels as they transit the Eisenhower Lock. We were lucky enough to come just as a big ship from Greece, loaded with sugar, approached the locks and wanted to go through. Twenty-two million gallons of water are used during each transit to raise and lower ships more than 40 feet in less than 10 minutes. This ship was over 600 ft. long. It was a site to see.

Our next stop was the St Lawrence-FDR Power Project which services both NY and Canada. It was a huge facility and we checked out the museum on site. They had hands on exhibits that explained the basics of energy and electricity.

We stepped out on the wrap-around deck and got a panoramic view of the St Lawrence River.

Bud & Joyce took us around to check out a couple of campgrounds and around 6:00 pm we headed back to the 5th wheel and moved it to a lot at the Massena International Kampground and got set up so we could show Bud & Joyce our home before going out for supper. We closed up the restaurant and went back to Bud & Joyce’s for coffee.

Bud brought us home around 9:00 pm and it was time to call it a night.