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Time passes.
Sep. 4th, 2019 03:42 pmas it does
I am currently being head-butted by a cat who wants attention. I do not give the correct kind of attention, though, which leads to kitty-teeth scraping along my hand. (I cannot give the correct kind of attention, as I am the wrong person, but I am the one who is here.)
We left Saturday for points north - Cheboygan and Mackinaw City, with a quick pass through St Ignace. We went up for the Mackinac Bridge walk, as we have been doing for the last few years (since DB graduated from HS, and we didn't have a 7am Tuesday start of school nor a 5pm Friday football band call). We stayed in the "modern lodge" at Cheboygan State Park. It's not camping. It's not even glamping. It's AirB&B. BD cooked cedar planked salmon & various roasted veggies for dinner on Saturday, and his sister brought a salad from her cabin 10 miles from 'camp'. J had the gang buy a birthday cake while they were out buying groceries on Saturday afternoon, so I got a birthday cake! (and dirged, but it is what it is.)
This year, one of the ferry companies did the shuttle correctly, and one could purchase an open ticket for passage on the next available shuttle (last year, the city-to-city shuttles were all timed departures, which is fine if you want to ferry over from your car, but possibly less-than-useful if you want to walk across and catch a ferry back to your car). We did that, me being uncertain about my ability to be a Double Crosser. It took longer to catch the shuttle to the dock, wait for the boat, and ride the boat back than it did to walk the bridge. We know this, because we met friends T&L in Mackinaw after the ride and they'd been back for half an hour by the time we even landed -- then we had to walk the half mile back to town from the south dock.
Due to aforementioned visit with T&L, we did not do the Cheboygan bridge walk this year. Maybe next year. The Cheboygan bridge walk will be there next year, but T&L (who were in northern lower Michigan to avoid Dorian) may not be.
At one point, we had thought about going over to Sleeping Bear Dunes after leaving Cheboygan, but the radar showed very solid rain across the top of the state for the rest of Tuesday, so we came home.
J is off toward Roscommon (or perhaps has returned, it's unclear to me), due to vehicle shuffling and K being, well, K.
I am currently being head-butted by a cat who wants attention. I do not give the correct kind of attention, though, which leads to kitty-teeth scraping along my hand. (I cannot give the correct kind of attention, as I am the wrong person, but I am the one who is here.)
We left Saturday for points north - Cheboygan and Mackinaw City, with a quick pass through St Ignace. We went up for the Mackinac Bridge walk, as we have been doing for the last few years (since DB graduated from HS, and we didn't have a 7am Tuesday start of school nor a 5pm Friday football band call). We stayed in the "modern lodge" at Cheboygan State Park. It's not camping. It's not even glamping. It's AirB&B. BD cooked cedar planked salmon & various roasted veggies for dinner on Saturday, and his sister brought a salad from her cabin 10 miles from 'camp'. J had the gang buy a birthday cake while they were out buying groceries on Saturday afternoon, so I got a birthday cake! (and dirged, but it is what it is.)
This year, one of the ferry companies did the shuttle correctly, and one could purchase an open ticket for passage on the next available shuttle (last year, the city-to-city shuttles were all timed departures, which is fine if you want to ferry over from your car, but possibly less-than-useful if you want to walk across and catch a ferry back to your car). We did that, me being uncertain about my ability to be a Double Crosser. It took longer to catch the shuttle to the dock, wait for the boat, and ride the boat back than it did to walk the bridge. We know this, because we met friends T&L in Mackinaw after the ride and they'd been back for half an hour by the time we even landed -- then we had to walk the half mile back to town from the south dock.
Due to aforementioned visit with T&L, we did not do the Cheboygan bridge walk this year. Maybe next year. The Cheboygan bridge walk will be there next year, but T&L (who were in northern lower Michigan to avoid Dorian) may not be.
At one point, we had thought about going over to Sleeping Bear Dunes after leaving Cheboygan, but the radar showed very solid rain across the top of the state for the rest of Tuesday, so we came home.
J is off toward Roscommon (or perhaps has returned, it's unclear to me), due to vehicle shuffling and K being, well, K.
