First Night on Board!!!!

We boarded around 8:00 and stayed in St. Clair Shoes till they finished off-loading the coal which meant a departure around 2:00 am.  Barb dutifully knocked on all of our doors around 4:30 in order for us to be up and see Detroit at night as we passed under the Detroit Bridge as we traversed the Detroit River.  The freighter is loud; it is sort of dirty, as they do carry and off-load coal, and collectively we slept little which was great, as we ran around in our sleep clothes!!  Jeff alone, recorded 3,000 steps in the wee hours prior to 5 am, as he checked out every nook and cranny.  Photos with captions....

God Bless the USA!!  I just happen to love this photo.

Smile!

Sam on the bridge approaching Detroit in the very early am.

As we pass under the bridge in the Detroit River. 

The ladder we never had to climb...thank God!

This would be Barb, Sam, Jane, Jeff, Don and Diane in front of the Tregurtha!

And this is Jane and Jeff, with green hard hats in hand....remember "wear the hats when in docks or locks!"

Jeff Winston in front of the stacks of the electricity-producing plant which uses the coal transported from Duluth, MN to, in this case, Monroe, Michigan.  That is not smoke; it is steam.