Aboard Belle, his 36-foot 1998 Hinckley Picnic Boat, Geraldo Rivera began his journey from East Hampton, New York, to Cleveland, Ohio. According to the New York Times, after 22 years of work at Fox News, Rivera decided to set a new course aboard his boat.
Rivera quit his Fox News job after refusing to support former President Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election. He quit after the news network demoted him. Had these events transpired earlier in his life, the lifelong boater might have found himself setting out on the open ocean, something he had done before. But at the age of 80, he knew that was unrealistic. He compromised with an inland trip on a river and a canal laced with history.
Unencumbered, and accompanied only by his younger brother Craig, Rivera found his cruise on Long Island Sound, up the Hudson River and along the Erie Canal quite nostalgic. “It is a passage,” he said in an article for The New York Times, “in every way.”
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