Family Visit
Mom Gets the Admiral’s Tour!
Haven’t posted for a while because of our big navigation upgrade project followed by my mom and stepfather visiting for a week. The navigation electronics install are much more time consuming that I estimated but I’ve made great progress, having installed the new display and wiring (photos later), and had the new radar scanner, AIS antenna and stern light installed and wired up.
As for the week-long visit, it started from my stepfather Scott, who was stationed at West Point in the late 1960s, and who wanted to visit one more time as a bucket list activity. And so he and my mom flew into New York City where we picked them up and headed up to West Point.
Million Dollar View at THE West Point of the Hudson
It was a very interesting tour. Lots of history. West Point was a key control point in the Revolutionary War, and only later did they decide to build the Military Academy here. The pic above is called the “million dollar view” due to the beauty of the place, and is actually located just above the west point of the Hudson River, after which the Military Academy is named. The academy itself is huge, we only saw a small part of it on the tour. Scott and I were able to get our temporary IDs to visit his old barracks, which he said looked the same almost 50 years later. He got to walk around and take lots of photos, and also talk to a lot of old guys in Highland Falls (town outside West Point) who knew all the same people he did from half a century ago. This was a great visit for everyone.
One of the Stained Glass Sections of the Chapel