Some of the greatest trips give us that feeling of traveling back in time. Last summer, Aubrey Ralph did nearly that, when he spent nine days sailing aboard a 200 year old tall ship, across two Great Lakes. He was with the reconstructed U.S. Brig Niagara as she shoved off from her home port in Erie, PA.
Niagara played a critical role in one of the most important naval battles of the War of 1812. You may have heard her Commodore’s famous words written just after the battle, “We have met the enemy, and they are ours…”