Mt Adams is east of town and has a great overlook of the Ohio River. It was a holiday so there was lots of boating activity on the water on a beautiful sunny day.
We continued upriver to Coney Island Amusement Park to view the site of a former world class park. Then we headed across the river to the Kentucky side and drove along the river to Newport. Along the way I found this great boat to buy.
Lunch was at a Mexican restaurant near the Newport Aquarium.
Karen and Doug opted to walk across the Purple Bridge while Betty and I enjoyed the scenery from a less strenuous vantage point.
Similar to Puducah’s Flood Wall the city of Covington had the same outfit paint their flood wall with murals. There are 18 of them and they look gorgeous.
This clever picture by Karen shows the Roebling Bridge mural with the Roebling Bridge in the background.
Our plane was leaving at 7:10pm so we started heading toward the airport around 4pm needing to gas up the van before dropping off everyone with the luggage at the airport. I would then take the car to the rental place and get driven back to the airport for check-in and the flight home.
So we waved goodbye to our last riverboat on the river.
The airport was surprisingly empty on this Labor Day. We flew into Minneapolis – the site of the Republican National Convention that started today. That airport wasn’t busy either.
There was a huge storm west of Minneapolis that we had to go around but it only added 10 minutes to the flight. Karen called her sister, Margaret, to let her know we were ready to be picked up and we made it home by midnight.
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We really enjoyed your trip accounts. My wife and I will be on the "last" voyage of the Legendary One, the Delta Queen.
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