We had a wonderful send off from Paris by our friends, Sally & Al with Nancy and Brad waving us off as well. The first order of business is to go through a lock from the marina to reach the Seine. Once we got through the lock we turned upstream for a short distance and then turned onto the River Marne to start our journey toward the Med. This short portion of the Seine was more industrialized with places for barges to be loaded and we had quite a few more bridges to go under. It still seems somewhat strange to go under these bridges which is now possible without our mast. We had gone through the locks in the Erie Canal when we first left upstate NY back in 2010, but we are very glad
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