Up early at 4:15. Jessica Lombardi is our chauffeur to SFO (and our house/cat sitter extraordinaire!) Of course there is no traffic, so that’s excellent. We arrive in Pellston, MI at 5:00, hoping to grab a cab to Charlevoix, MI where the yearly art fair is underway and closing down at 6:00! Unfortunately, one of our bags missed a connecting flight from Detroit, so we were held up and didn’t make it to Charlevoix until 6:30. John, being an art lover and a gentleman, encouraged me out of the cab before we got to the harbor so I could scurry through the ‘streets’ of the quickly disappearing art fair while he took care of harbor logistics and lugged our supply filled duffles to the Latitude Adjustment. While the art booths were at least 75% torn down, I came across one booth with beautiful work and found a tiny, affordable, adorable pastel for a small space in the new house.
Charlevoix is as beautiful as we remembered. It’s 75º and sunny, no humidity, no bugs,… just lots of pretty!
John returned from the marina office with an announcement that we had a quick stop on the way to dinner. He had made ‘friends’ with a couple on the next dock who owned the 2013 45’ Cantius Cruisers Yacht (Latitude Adjustment is the 48’ model made in 2012). There were some new features – foremost a galley in the main salon with a bar open to the cockpit rather than galley downstairs - that had him wondering if he’d made the right choice. He was looking forward to finally getting to see it.
We headed to dock C and approached ‘The Jolly Roger’. Our reception was a bit frosty so we had to put on the charm. Roger and Jane are South Dakotans and I think they had some unflattering notions about Californians. When I asked what business they were in, he said, oh, your from California, you wouldn’t understand – so I’m thinking he’s a quark theory physicist conducting deep inelastic scattering experiments, but Jane says, we own a ranch supply company. Hah! How many horses have been born in my barn? My parents have three state of the art tractors, two barns, and have been raising fine thoroughbreds and hay for how many years? Were we not all just roping a steer dummy two weeks ago at Tulloch? Puhlease! Anyhow, I thought that was funny.
Luckily, although the features on The (not quite) Jolly Roger were useful, the Latitude Adjustment still ranked number one for our needs, so at least John walked away jolly to our dinner at Stafford’s Weathervane and then it was off to bed.
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