Portions of the Erie Canal were widened (originally 40-feet-wide) and deepened before the Civil War and expanded again a century ago. Some parts are essentially weed troughs and narrow.
Many towns that once depended on shipping along the canal, now push tourism with inns and eateries catering to recreational boaters and visitors who hike and bike along paved trails running alongside the corridor.
The Donnellys have a blog (serenitysstory.blog) and say they are moving along at a 4.5 mile-an-hour pace, just a little faster than back in the day when mules pulled boats of people and products back in the 1830s.
Donnelly Great Loop Adventure 2017. Appears they are up around Mackinac and preparing to go down Lake Michigan.
--Cooter
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