1. We departed the lake place and hit the road for North Michigan, with Carp Lake, just south of Mackinaw City our destination.
2. Just shy of our destination, we stopped at the splendid Petoskey Brewing. I enjoyed a lighter beer, a Kolsch. Debbie went for a New England style IPA. We were enjoying our beer on the outdoor patio, the lower one, and a couple strolled up. The woman immediately took to Gibbs and in the course of showering him with praise and goo goos, she and her husband and Debbie and I fell into conversation. They were around our age. They are Michigan lifers and they gave us about 100,000 great ideas for touring the Mackinaw City, Mackinac Island, and the Upper Peninsula. I'd have loved to do just a fraction of all they told us about -- made me wish we were spending a month in North Michigan and the UP rather than a couple of days.
3. Arrived at our airbnb, a converted motel, called Pure Paradise Resort. We settled in and soon I drove about 4 miles down highway 31 to William's Marathon Grocery and Liquor Store, a cramped, dimly lit convenience store with gas pumps and booze. I purchased a fifth of Tanqueray, a scrawny lime, ice, and a bottle of tonic water and for me and Debbie. The Paradise party was on.
Before long, Debbie called to a bar a short ways down the road, Clyde's Place, and ordered me a burger and a buffalo chicken salad wrap for herself. We partied on, talked about a million things and relaxed until it was time to go to sleep.
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