Voyage to Toledo!
We’re underway again, and this time our ship’s destination is Toledo , Ohio . The ship slowly worked its way out of the long, curved and narrow Calumet River and out past the break wall last night and into Lake Michigan once the loading of coal was complete. I had turned in, for the night just prior to us departing yet I sensed nothing while I slept as this massive freighter carved a path below many small cantilever bridges, as it headed outbound towards the great lake. In fact, it would seem that this ship would resemble a slow moving snake as it slithers along the way, not making hardly a sound except for the small rippled wavelets it displaced.
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