Mills-Norrie SP marina Day 2

It took a lot of research to find this gem, which I've never read about on about on the looper Forum. Only $24/night including 30A power, superb protection, new all-tile and SS climate controlled bathhouse with twice the rooms Half Moon Bay has. Also a ramp adequate for a TC255.
Historically, barges then railroads then roads followed the river valleys, so all Hudson River marinas have some train noise, but here it's minimal. We're glad to pay for an Uber to Hyde Park and Poughkeepsie and have protection from wind, wakes and current. The 5-6 foot tides rush all the 150 miles to Troy before the Troy Dam and Lock stop them.

The only bad thing I'm going to say about Juneteenth is that it spoiled a long-anticipated 90 minute guided tour of the CIA (Culinary Institute of America) due to the Friday Federal Holiday (I forgot). Our Consolation Prize was lunch at Lola's Cafe, a local CIA chef grad. My BLAT, (bacon, lettuce, avocado and tomato) sandwich with peanut noodles was great!
Then we Ubered over to the FDR 1,000 acre estate, home, visitor center and Presidential Library and Museum. It turns out that FDR founded the very first one of those! It did NOT look like a billion-dollar pregnant Klingon Gulag, like some do...see pic.

We walked around Hyde Park and across the Hudson River Pedestrian Bridge (an old abandoned RR bridge), the longest in the world at 1.28 miles. The wind blew as predicted with gusts to 40 MPH and flags flying straight out. There's lots of history in the area, which we always enjoy.Read more